as in full steam ahead
with all power or resources being used
I'll fight tooth and nail to win the finals
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Recent Examples of tooth and nail
Others, understandably, would fight tooth and nail to try to keep that key figure.
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Thom Harris, New York Times, 23 July 2025
Actresses have had to fight tooth and nail to achieve a salary that an actor would be awarded, doing the same work.
—Emma Burleigh, Fortune, 23 June 2025
While business owners like me fight tooth and nail to keep our businesses afloat, Visa and Mastercard enjoy profit margins as high as 50%.
—Alvin Orloff, Mercury News, 27 May 2025
Fast forward to Game 3 of the Western Conference semifinals, which was tied 1-1, and a Steph Curry-less Golden State team was fighting tooth and nail to claim a contest to re-claim the series lead and buy time for Curry to get healthy.
—Jace Frederick, Twin Cities, 17 May 2025
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Thom Harris, New York Times, 23 July 2025
Actresses have had to fight tooth and nail to achieve a salary that an actor would be awarded, doing the same work.
—Emma Burleigh, Fortune, 23 June 2025
While business owners like me fight tooth and nail to keep our businesses afloat, Visa and Mastercard enjoy profit margins as high as 50%.
—Alvin Orloff, Mercury News, 27 May 2025
Fast forward to Game 3 of the Western Conference semifinals, which was tied 1-1, and a Steph Curry-less Golden State team was fighting tooth and nail to claim a contest to re-claim the series lead and buy time for Curry to get healthy.
—Jace Frederick, Twin Cities, 17 May 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for tooth and nail
Adverb
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LGMs use frameworks that analyze and reason across both time and space to exhaustively simulate virtually any and every event and scenario.—
John M. Bremen,
Forbes.com,
15 Aug. 2025
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The movie’s go-to technique is exhaustively long flashbacks meant to retroactively explain connective tissue that, at the very least, ought to have been hinted at through performance.—
Siddhant Adlakha,
Variety,
14 Aug. 2025
Adverb
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This is the era of all-nighters, early classes, cafeteria skin, and figuring it all out.—
Larry Stansbury,
Essence,
5 Sep. 2025
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Their getaway would also not be complete without a good meal, and the pair made sure to go all out.—
Kimberlee Speakman,
People.com,
2 Sep. 2025
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“Tooth and nail.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/tooth%20and%20nail. Accessed 11 Sep. 2025.
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