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breaking my teeth 

1.having a hard time saying something...or explaining something or even reading something.
2. having an annoying time saying something, explaining something or even reading something.
"'I am not gonna spend the whole day breaking my teeth over these instructions ..can you just read the booklet on your own."
breaking my teeth by teethbreaker August 24, 2006

Beating of gums and chipping of teeth 

A popular 1940's term for a rumor spreading about. Common synonym to Scuttlebutt
There was much beating of gums and chipping of teeth over the air raid last week among the troops.