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tooth and nail

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. tooth and nailadverb

    with force and ferocity

    "she fought tooth and nail"

Wiktionary

  1. tooth and nailadverb

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

Wikidata

  1. Tooth and Nail

    Tooth and Nail is the second studio album by heavy metal band Dokken, released in 1984 through Elektra Records. It was the #35 album of 1985 according to Billboard magazine. The album was certified Platinum by the RIAA and reached #49 on the Billboard 200 U.S. album chart.

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of TOOTH AND NAIL in Chaldean Numerology is: 2

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of TOOTH AND NAIL in Pythagorean Numerology is: 7

Examples of TOOTH AND NAIL in a Sentence

  1. Roosevelt, Eleanor:

    My dentist was married to a manicurist. But it did not work out. They fought tooth and nail !

  2. John Lott:

    Gun control advocates and Democrats will fight you tooth and nail, they want to go and say' We've stopped 3.5 million dangerous people.' I look at it as we've stopped 3.5 million law abiding citizens who wanted to get a gun.

  3. Adam McKellips:

    I work for a Class 1 railroad that implemented one of the most egregious attendance policies (Hi-Viz) that requires us to be available to work 92% of the time per month, if we take off one day for a sickness, we are required to [work] 14 days straight to gain points back. That is why we are fighting tooth and nail for sick days.

  4. Neel Chatterjee:

    This arbitration was not about trade secrets but about employees leaving Google for new opportunities and an engineer being used as a pawn by two tech giants, google fought tooth and nail to take back every penny paid to Anthony Levandowski for Anthony Levandowski multibillion dollar contributions and now Uber is refusing to indemnify Anthony Levandowski despite explicitly agreeing to do so.

  5. Rob Pitts:

    This is all about 2022 and 2024, they are engaged in an all-out assault on our voters because they are determined to never let a Democrat win the state again. And we're going to fight them tooth and nail.


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