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Definition of Tooth and nail
1. Adverb. With force and ferocity. "She fought tooth and nail"
Definition of Tooth and nail
1. Adverb. (idiomatic) Viciously; with all one’s strength or power; without holding back. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Tooth And Nail
Literary usage of Tooth and nail
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Christianizing the Social Order by Walter Rauschenbusch (1912)
"CHAPTER IV THE LAW OF tooth and nail WHEN a number of men in the same community
engage in the same line of productive labor, what is the normal and ..."
2. British Theatre: Comprising Tragedies, Comedies, Operas, and Farces, from by Owen Williams (1828)
"... of the bailiffs, and now he's again engaging, tooth and nail, in assisting old
.... tooth and nail ..."
3. A Dictionary of Archaic and Provincial Words, Obsolete Phrases, Proverbs by James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps (1850)
"To set about anything tooth and nail, to set about it in earnest. TOOTH-HOD.
Fine pasturage. Korth. TOOTHING. Bricks left projecting from a party-wall ready ..."
4. Valentine M'Clutchy, the Irish Agent: Or, Chronicles of the Castle Cumber by William Carleton (1845)
"... while Darby was tooth and nail at the Bible, Solomon wrote the following
reply :— " MY DEAR ... tooth and nail ..."
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