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Definition: Tooth And Nail |
Tooth And NailAdverb1. With force and ferocity; "she fought tooth and nail". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Attack | Ride full tilt against; attack tooth and nail, go at hammer and tongs. |
Exertion | Adverb: laboriously; Adjective: lustily; pugnis et calcibus; with might and main, with all one's might, with a strong hand, with a sledge hammer, with much ado; to the best of one's abilities, totis viribus, vi et armis, manibus pedibusque, tooth and nail, unguibus et rostro, hammer and tongs, heart and soul; through thick and thin; (perseverance) a. |
Violence | Adverb: violently; Adjective: amain; by storm, by force, by main force; with might and main; tooth and nail, vi et armis, at the point of the sword, at the point of the bayonet; at one fell swoop; with a high hand, through thick and thin; in desperation, with a vengeance; a outrance, a toute outrance; headlong, head foremost. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Tooth And Nail |
| Specialty definitions using "tooth and nail": Back and Edge. (references) |
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Books | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Expressions using "tooth and nail": attack tooth and nail ♦ fight tooth and nail. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
tooth and nail record | 119 |
tooth and nail | 108 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "tooth and nail"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||
Finnish | kynsin hampain. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
French | lutte acharnée (fight tooth and nail). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | teljes erővel (full blast, with might and main), tíz körömmel, kézzel-lábbal, foggal-körömmel, elkeseredetten (bitterly, desperately). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | oothtay anday ailnay se lupta cu înverşunare (fight tooth and nail), lupta cu dinţii (fight tooth and nail). (various references) изо всех сил (at full tilt, flat out, for all one is worth, hammer and tongs, like grim death). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-d-h-i-l-n-n-o-o-t-t" | |
-2 letters: notational. | |
-3 letters: antidotal, antinodal. | |
-4 letters: adnation, anthodia, dilatant, donation, dotation, halation, inhalant, natation, national, nontidal, notation, notional. | |
-5 letters: alation, annatto, anthoid, antlion, otolith. | |
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