Fight-tooth-and-nail Definition

verb

(idiomatic) To use every means possible to overcome a difficult opposition.

The villagers fought tooth and nail to prevent the motorway being built through the local woodlands.
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Fight-tooth-and-nail Sentence Examples

  • Prior to our forming a government, we will fight tooth and nail against the looming catastrophe of forced integration within secondary schools.

  • Toms warned that residents would fight tooth and nail to retain their school.

  • I knew my own mind well enough and always had my own way, even if I had to fight tooth and nail for it.

  • Mills doesn't believe she's being unreasonable, however, and promises to fight tooth and nail on both sides of the pond for her due.

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