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in one's teeth en · ADP

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  1. Of the wind, blowing straight from the direction, or desired direction, of travel.
    • The whole of the next day we were obliged to stop near the village of Tidore, owing to a strong wind right in our teeth. 1869, Alfred Russel Wallace, The Malay Archipelago, volume II, London: Macmillan and Co., page 26: