🔰a kick in the teeth
✅Meaning: If you get a kick in the teeth, something bad happens to you or you feel that you've been treated poorly.
🔹For example:
➖I'd just lost my job, so hearing that I had to move out of my apartment as well was a real kick in the teeth.
➖Gerry said that being told to get out of his apartment was a kick in the teeth after spending so much on doing it up.
