Dictionary of Phrase and Fable—C

Cast into One's Teeth

(To). To throw a reproof at one. The allusion is to knocking one's teeth out by stones.

All my faults observed, set in a note book,
Learned and conned by rote, to cast into my teeth.

Shakespeare: Julius Coesar.

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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