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TOOTH AND NAIL
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Dictionary entry overview: What does tooth and nail mean?
• TOOTH AND NAIL (adverb)
The adverb TOOTH AND NAIL has 1 sense:
Familiarity information: TOOTH AND NAIL used as an adverb is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
With force and ferocity
Context example:
she fought tooth and nail
Context examples
But I've got a motive, as my fellow-partner used to say; and I go at it tooth and nail.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
Time and again he fought it out with Leach who fought back always, like a wildcat, tooth and nail and fist, until stretched, exhausted or unconscious, on the deck.
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
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