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kick in the teeth

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a kick in the teeth
if you describe the way someone treats you as a kick in the teeth, you mean that they treat you badly and unfairly, especially at a time when you need their support. She was refused promotion which was a real kick in the teeth after all the extra work she'd done.
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kick someone in the teeth

a kick in the teeth - if you describe the way someone treats you as a kick in the teeth, you mean that they treat you badly and unfairly, especially at a time when you need their support. She'd only been trying to help him and she felt that she'd been kicked in the teeth.
See also: kick, teeth

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``This is a kick in the teeth to the thousands of individuals across the world who are legally attempting to enter the United States,'' said Rep.
Still, HBT looks like a company that could kick in the teeth of a Wall Street grizzly.
Let's not kid ourselves," Welch told The Wall Street Journal "[T]his is a kick in the teeth for those guys", "[T]hose guys"?
 
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