I think that what had me ‘gobsmacked’ was how many people I know took great pleasure in reminding me of how painful, and expensive, it will be to have an implant. Yeah thanks guys. So I was ‘chuffed’ when one of my mates referred me to someone she’d used in the past. “I didn’t feel a thing” she said. Thanks luv! I don’t care that it might not be exactly true. It’s exactly what I needed to hear. Sometimes you need something like that to ‘set the wheels in motion’ and it’s not that good dentist’s are ‘rare as hens teeth’ but more that when you move to a new suburb your ‘going in blind’. Horror stories going around and around in your head as you remember that needle coming out of your mouth bent and bloody from when you were a kid. How deep did they go?
- Scares the living daylights out of me – feel extremely scared
- Gobsmacked – so surprised you can’t speak
- Chuffed – very pleased
- Set the wheels in motion – to start a process
- Rare as hen’s teeth – hens don’t have teeth, rare, non-existent
- Going in blind – no previous knowledge of
- Right on the money – accurate, correct
- In this day and age – this present time
- I shudder to think – something not pleasant to think about