Tooth-and-nail
adverb
1.
with all one’s resources or energy; fiercely:
We fought tooth and nail but lost.
tooth and nail definition
To fight “tooth and nail” is to fight with the intensity and ferocity of a wild animal: “The resistance forces fought the invading troops tooth and nail.”
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