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tooth and nail
tooth and nail
- To fight “tooth and nail” is to fight with the intensity and ferocity of a wild animal: “The resistance forces fought the invading troops tooth and nail.”
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Word History and Origins
Origin of tooth and nail1
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Example Sentences
This award is fought over tooth-and-nail each year by political consultants from sea to shining sea.
Imperiled as he is, he cannot recreate the tooth-and-nail desperation that fueled Shackleton.
When I do, it will be a tooth-and-nail fight, and I must be equipped with facts, not theories.
And the boy broke into a volley of oaths and flung himself once more tooth-and-nail on Reginald.
To be rolling at her feet, locked in a literally tooth-and-nail struggle with Ortega would have been odious.
Anyhow, as such I am opposed tooth-and-nail to the iniquity of the existing Competitive System.
At the door of a thatched mud hut there was a fierce tooth-and-nail contest between two pigs.
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