Bruxism of bruxism. Clenching the teeth is generally displayed by humans and other animals as a display of anger, hostility or frustration. It is thought that in humans, clenching the teeth may be an evolutionary instinct to display teeth as weapons, thereby threatening a rival or a predator. The phrase "to grit one's teeth" is the grinding or clenching of the teeth in anger, or to accept a difficult or unpleasant situation and deal with it in a determined way. In the Bible there are several references to "gnashing of teeth" in both the Old Testament, and the New Testament, where
Habitual be the introduction, and subsequent loss of habitual "do (be)" in America, which was also the problem with the first expansion of the diffusion hypothesis. Another hypothesis for the origins of habitual "be" in NWBE and afterwards into AAE is the most logical and the strongest of the lot. The decreolization theory for the emergence of habitual "be" in AAE is the most likely and most supported of the theories of its origin. It involves the decreolization process of Caribbean English creole, with the loss of "does (be)", which itself is a decreolization of a previous creole habitual marker and its