Tooth-and-nail

adj, adv

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Adjective
  1. 1
    vicious; violent; full of strength and power idiomatic, not-comparable

    "a tooth-and-nail fight"

Adverb
  1. 1
    viciously, violently not-comparable

    "They fought tooth-and-nail"

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