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tooth and nail

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tooth and nail
adv.
With every available resource; with unrelenting effort: "Bureaucrats would correctly see this as a curb on their power and would fight tooth and nail against it" (George R. Packard).
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Adv.1.tooth and nailtooth and nail - with force and ferocity; "she fought tooth and nail"


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But the consequence is, that the whole profession in Middlemarch have set themselves tooth and nail against the Hospital, and not only refuse to cooperate themselves, but try to blacken the whole affair and hinder subscriptions.
Middlemarch by Eliot, George View in context
with your pardon for the word, I'd do the same if she had married fifty highwaymen in a twelvemonth; and think it in the Protestant Manual too, though Martha said it wasn't, tooth and nail, till doomsday
Barnaby Rudge - A Tale Of The Riots Of 'Eighty by Dickens, Charles View in context
He would work his way to the other's back and, clinging there with tooth and nail, drive his knife home until Terkoz was no more.
Tarzan of the Apes by Burroughs, Edgar Rice View in context
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