English Dictionary

bit between one's teeth

名詞

Complete control of a situation; a stance that cannot be controlled or restrained by anyone else. / A large degree of focus and commitment to a task.

日本語の意味

状況を完全に掌握し、誰にも制御されない状態 / 特定の任務に対して非常に高い集中力と強い献身を示す状態

Getting the bit between one's teeth often gives a person complete control of a situation.

状況を完全に掌握することは、しばしば人にその場面を効果的に対処する力を与える。

意味（1）

Complete control of a situation; a stance that cannot be controlled or restrained by anyone else.

If he was to get the bit between his teeth after he had got ordained and bought his living, he would play more pranks than ever he, Theobald, had done.

意味（2）

A large degree of focus and commitment to a task.

The upheaval in the creative unions seems to have gone further than expected and the forces for renewal took the bit between their teeth — to such an extent that the writers' congress in June of the same year would follow more staid formulas and attempt more of a compromise between the old and the new, as compared to the Fifth Congress of the Filmmakers' Union in May, where the old guard of film directors had been eliminated (Lev Kulidshanov, Vladimir Naumov, and Sergei Bondarchuk).

意味（3）

Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see bit, between, teeth.

Some fellow British travellers at Xian, who own horses and therefore understand equine tack, pointed out — when I asked about the authenticity of the replicas — that the horses could not possibly have coped with the bit between their teeth (as they were shown) for long.