/ · 1894 Brewer’s · C · Cast into One’s Teeth (To)
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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 Cœsar.
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.
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