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.

tooth and nail - with force and ferocity; "she fought tooth and nail"

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