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Apply through your teeth 

To euphamise one's skills and/or work ethic on a work application with the intent of having your application receive a more favorable consideration. It is an unwritten rule of applying for jobs, i.e., it is expected that you apply through your teeth. Remember, it's not lying - it's applying.
Question: How often have you skipped school: never, on occasion, only as much as everyone else does, or always?

Applicant: Hmm, let's see. Well, I do skip on occasion, so...

Friend: Dude, apply through your teeth. Tell them you never skip. That's what they're expecting you to say.

Applicant: Alright, next question.

Question: I disagree with others frequently. Strongly agree, agree, neutral, disagree, or strongly disagree?

Applicant: Wtf! It's a trick question >_<

Lie through your teeth 

The opposite of speaking the truth.
Alcoholic Rob: "I swear this is the last weekend I'm ganna drink"

Claudio: "Man, why you Gatta lie through your teeth"

shitting through the teeth 

vomiting.
shitting through the teeth

"Where's Joe?"

"He's been in there all day shittin through his teeth."

"I told him not to order those shrimp fajitas!"

Lie through your teeth 

When you talk so much bullshit that your teeth fall out.
Why lie through your teeth Andrzej? You look like a hick!

sweat through the teeth

to be very miserly, especially whe footing the bill.
When his wife asked him to pay for the sari worth Rs. 10,000, he sweated through the teeth (past form of sweat through the teeth).
Dunzo, a slang word for done/finshed. Made famous by the Laguna Beach cast.
This car is so dunzo. (Kristin's car breaks down.)
dunzo by Joey Pellet December 8, 2004
Word of the Day on June 20, 2026