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United States painter (born in 1917)

are we having fun yet Idiom, Proverb

as yet

until now, up to the present As yet, she has not told me about her plans to leave the company.

cut one's eyeteeth on

Idiom(s): cut one's eyeteeth on sth

Theme: TRAINING

to have done something since one was very young; to have much experience at something. (Folksy.)
• Do I know about cars? I cut my eyeteeth on cars.
• I cut my eyeteeth on Bach. I can whistle everything he wrote.

as yet|yet

adv. phr. Up to the present time; so far; yet. We know little as yet about the moon's surface. She has not come as yet.

eyeteeth

eyeteeth
see give one's eyeteeth.

eyetooth

eyetooth
cut one's eyeteeth
to become experienced or sophisticated

give one's eyeteeth

give one's eyeteeth
Also, give one's right arm. Go to any lengths to obtain, as in She'd give her eyeteeth for a mink coat, or He'd give his right arm for a new car. These hyperbolic expressions both allude to something precious, the eyeteeth (or canines) being useful for both biting and chewing and the right arm a virtual necessity for the 90 percent of the population who are right-handed. Both date from the first half of the 1900s, when the first replaced give one's eyes, from the mid-1800s.

are we accepting fun yet

A byword acclimated sarcastically or humorously back article is not as agreeable as one had hoped it would be. Are we accepting fun yet? We've alone spent best of our vacation day ashore in traffic!Learn more: fun, have, we, yet

Are we accepting fun yet?

and AWHFY sent. & comp. abb. This isn’t the fun that you declared or adumbrated it would be, is it? Are we accepting fun yet? This is absolutely dull. Gr8t d8t! AWHFY? Learn more: fun, have, we

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