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tooth and nail

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1 tooth and nail

With force and ferocity.

Roget 173: violently etc. adj.; amain; by storm, by force, by main force; with might and main; tooth and nail, vi et armis [Lat.], at the point of the sword, at the point of the bayonet; at one fell swoop; ... meer laten zien

Roget 686: laboriously etc. adj.; lustily; pugnis et calcibus [Lat.]; 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 [Lat.], vi et armis [Lat.], ... meer laten zien


Moby betekeniswoordenboek: arduously, atrociously, barbarously, bec et ongles, bestially, brutally, brutishly, committedly, decidedly, decisively, determinedly, devotedly, earnestly, effortfully, ferociously, fiercely, firmly, fixedly, hammer and tongs, hard ... meer laten zien.

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