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tooth and nail

phrase as in with force and ferocity

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Example Sentences

This award is fought over tooth-and-nail each year by political consultants from sea to shining sea.

Imperiled as he is, he cannot recreate the tooth-and-nail desperation that fueled Shackleton.

When I do, it will be a tooth-and-nail fight, and I must be equipped with facts, not theories.

And the boy broke into a volley of oaths and flung himself once more tooth-and-nail on Reginald.

To be rolling at her feet, locked in a literally tooth-and-nail struggle with Ortega would have been odious.

Anyhow, as such I am opposed tooth-and-nail to the iniquity of the existing Competitive System.

At the door of a thatched mud hut there was a fierce tooth-and-nail contest between two pigs.

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On this page you'll find 5 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to tooth and nail, such as: fiercely, bec et ongles, hammer and tongs, and with every available resource.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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