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To fight tooth and nail is to fight with the intensity and ferocity of a wild animal: The resistance forces fought the invading troops tooth and nail. | 1 |
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| The New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy, Third Edition. Edited by E.D. Hirsch, Jr., Joseph F. Kett, and James Trefil. Copyright © 2002 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved. |
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