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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:

1. with force and ferocityplay

  Familiarity information: TOOTH AND NAIL used as an adverb is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


TOOTH AND NAIL (adverb)


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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