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tooth and nail
adverb
Definition of TOOTH AND NAIL
: with every available means : all out <fight tooth and nail>
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First Known Use of TOOTH AND NAIL
1550
Related to TOOTH AND NAIL
- Synonyms
- all out, full tilt, full blast
Rhymes with TOOTH AND NAIL
abigail, altar rail, armored scale, audit trail, aventail, beavertail, bristletail, button quail, clapper rail, coffin nail, Corriedale, cottontail, countervail, Coverdale, direct mail, disentail, draggle-tail, fairy tale, farthingale, fingernail, forestaysail, gaff-topsail, galingale, garage sale, ginger ale, Holy Grail, humpback whale, Irish mail, killer whale, macroscale, martingale, microscale, monorail, montadale, nanoscale, nightingale, Nightingale, old wives' tale, overscale, paper trail, pilot whale, ponytail, purple scale, romeldale, rummage sale, sliding scale, solar sail, studding sail, Sunnyvale, swallowtail, tattletale, tripletail, trundle-tail, vapor trail, yellowtail
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