| 词汇 | no more use for them than meader-s teeth |
| 词源 | no more use for them than Meader’s teeth. A saying, only historical now, that derives from the old story about a man named Nick Meader, who at about the time of the War of 1812 borrowed a hammer to knock out all his teeth, claiming, “I have no need of them, for I can get nothing to eat.” |
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