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What does tooth and nail mean?

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Adverb
  1. Viciously; with all one's strength or power; without holding back.
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What about energy policy, which we have fought for tooth and nail time and again?
The airlines fought tooth and nail against passenger-bag matching because it would slow down the check-in process.
I recently fought tooth and nail with a young scut of a 28 year old over dancing rights.
He fought tooth and nail with terrorists killing three of them, but at last he was martyred.
I wasn't an angry child and generally avoided fights, but I get a red mist when somebody hits me first and fight tooth and nail.
But the first order of business now is to understand what the Republicans are up to, and to combat it tooth and nail.

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