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• These officers — and the rest of the force — were armed to the teeth.
  — Dvora Meyers, Longreads, 7 Aug. 2020
• The ones who are talking the most seriously about it are armed to the teeth.
  — Win McCormack, The New Republic, 1 Dec. 2022
• When society is armed to the teeth, bad things are bound to happen.
  — Erika D. Smithcolumnist, Los Angeles Times, 27 June 2022
• There are no machetes, nor compounds ruled by strongmen armed to the teeth.
  — Scott Winship, National Review, 29 Oct. 2020
• Then, the terrorists can claim their caliphate: a bone-white ethnostate, armed to the teeth, that is by, for, and about the master race.
  — Paul Solotaroff, Rolling Stone, 30 Jan. 2022
• Hutchinson testified that Trump was informed that some of his supporters in Washington, D.C., were armed to the teeth.
  — Amber Phillips, Anchorage Daily News, 28 June 2022
• Trained law enforcement officers armed to the teeth -- people paid by taxpayers to be 'good guys with guns' -- failed at taking out a mass shooter.
  — Richard Galant, CNN, 24 July 2022
• The Ambassador still has his grandfather's diary describing how the Finnish citizens armed to the teeth waited in the forests to attack the invading Russian troops.
  — Fox News, 16 May 2022
• The real Stagecoach Mary was a legendary mail carrier who spent a decade traversing the treacherous Montana territory, armed to the teeth and never missing a day.
  — Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 5 Nov. 2021

Last Updated: 24 Jul 2024