Usually means: Fighting with fierce, determined effort.
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  1. tooth and nail: Merriam-Webster
  2. tooth and nail: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  3. tooth and nail: Collins English Dictionary
  4. tooth and nail: Vocabulary.com
  5. tooth and nail: Wordnik
  6. tooth-and-nail, tooth and nail: Wiktionary
  7. tooth and nail: Infoplease Dictionary
  8. tooth and nail: Dictionary.com
  9. Tooth And Nail, Tooth and Nail (Dokken album), Tooth and Nail (film), Tooth and Nail (novel), Tooth and Nail (various artists album): Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  10. tooth and nail: Rhymezone
  11. Tooth and Nail: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  12. tooth and nail: FreeDictionary.org
  13. tooth and nail: Mnemonic Dictionary
  14. Tooth And Nail: A to Z list of the most popular idioms
  15. tooth and nail: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. Tooth and Nail: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (tooth and nail)

▸ adverb:  (figurative) Viciously; with all one's strength or power; without holding back.

Similar:
tooth, fang, and claw, horse and foot, might and main, amain, all-out, drivingly, ferociously, like whiteheads, something fierce, overstrongly, more...

Opposite:
peacefully, calmly, nonviolently

Phrases:
fighting tooth and nail, fights tooth and nail, fought tooth and nail, tooth and nail syndrome, fight tooth and nail, more...

Adjectives:
sharp, thorny, bruckle, pinched, squishy, cranky, crimped, crisp, brittle, sawed-off, squirrely

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Similar:
tooth, fang, and claw, horse and foot, might and main, amain, all-out, drivingly, ferociously, like whiteheads, something fierce, overstrongly, more...

Opposite:
peacefully, calmly, nonviolently

Phrases:
fighting tooth and nail, fights tooth and nail, fought tooth and nail, tooth and nail syndrome, fight tooth and nail, more...

Adjectives:
sharp, thorny, bruckle, pinched, squishy, cranky, crimped, crisp, brittle, sawed-off, squirrely



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