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jaws

/d͡ʒɔːz/ sustantivo B1

En español: fauces, mandíbulas, boca

  1. The mouth.
  2. The borders of anything which has a mouthlike aspect. · Open the jaws of the wrench and wide as possible.· The red wobbled in the jaws of the pocket, but didn't go down.
  3. A contrarian. (colloquial)
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“I should certainly weep if you killed a poor deer, and then my jaws would rust again.”
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, p. 37 · B2
Toto did not approve of this new comrade at first, for he could not forget how nearly he had been crushed between the Lion’s great jaws.
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, p. 35 · B2
When Dorothy presently asked him a question the Tin Woodman could not open his mouth, for his jaws were tightly rusted together.
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, p. 36 · B2
But the Scarecrow seized the oil-can from Dorothy’s basket and oiled the Woodman’s jaws, so that after a few moments he could talk as well as before.
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, p. 36 · B2

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