Images of Medusa's decapitated head - from classical Greek through the great masters are unmissable: gaping mouth, teeth bared in violent fury.
Our tongues perma-coated in pastries, eye whites turned the colour of chardonnay, pants straining, zips gaping like the teeth of a hungry dog.
With gaping jaws, huge teeth and large dorsal fins, the fish have been mistaken by great whites in the past but swimmers can rest assured that they are far less dangerous.
One-use puppets appear in what Supermarionation historian Stephen La Rivière describes as "a contender for the most horrific scene ever produced by Century 21": in the opening scene, the characters of the NWAC executives present gaping mouths and teeth, complete with dental fillings, when Brains' plan to design an airship sends them into howls of laughter.
It is impossible to look at the unseeing eyes, gaping maw, trio of teeth and thunderous monobrow without smiling, even if it is the smile of uncertainty.
The Ayurvedic medical text Sustum Samhita describes Putana as "black in colour, with a gaping mouth and projecting teeth and disheveled hair, clad in filthy garments, very smelly, and dwelling in empty broken-down buildings".
The best mask of my self (never mind my soul) may well be a chujo; my forehead will soon begin to wrinkle in a pattern like roots, and I often bear the sparse mustache, gaping mouth, and blackened teeth of the loyal bewildered lieutenant; perhaps I belong to the Komparu school.
Punk reveled in a taste for slumming that was almost heroic in its intensity arguably suitable for a city where World War II bomb sites still gaped like missing teeth.
They're "God's brilliant mistake," she says, because they're not really beautiful and resemble gaping mouths filled with crooked teeth.
Mesquita grabbed it with swift swipe and pinched its cheeks between his fingers, exposing a gaping mouth of razor-sharp teeth.
