Tooth And Nail Definition

adverb
With every available resource; with unrelenting effort.
American Heritage

(idiomatic) Viciously; with all one's strength or power; without holding back.

For a century, the two families fought tooth and nail over control of the land.
Wiktionary

Origin of Tooth And Nail

  • From tooth + and + nail (“fingernail, claw").

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Tooth And Nail Sentence Examples

  • I have fought him tooth and nail and now I am just tired and weary.

  • Prior to our forming a government, we will fight tooth and nail against the looming catastrophe of forced integration within secondary schools.

  • Toms warned that residents would fight tooth and nail to retain their school.

  • The pair fought tooth and nail with Reid being the eventual victor, while Dixon recovered from a spin to take fifth.

  • I knew my own mind well enough and always had my own way, even if I had to fight tooth and nail for it.

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