like pulling teeth

Very difficult, especially to extract information from someone. For example, It's like pulling teeth to get a straight answer from him.

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Now, it’s like pulling teeth to get a shark film with more than one decent creature shot — the 300 razor-sharp teeth of a great white, to be exact.

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As you might imagine, interviewing Lawrence and Vaughn isn’t like pulling teeth.

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Probably not, and we know it will be like pulling teeth to get the incompetent media to do so.

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I didn’t want to sit in a room and write lyrics and it’s always been a bit of like pulling teeth for me.

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“Getting voice therapy covered by the insurance companies for transgender individuals is like pulling teeth sometimes,” Dion says.

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