Idiom(s): fight sb or sth hammer and tongs AND fight sb or sth tooth and nail; go at it hammer and tongs; go at it tooth and nail
Theme: FIGHTING
to fight against someone or something energetically and with great determination. (All have fixed order.) • They fought against the robber tooth and nail. • The dogs were fighting each other hammer and tongs. • The mayor fought the new law hammer and tongs. • We'll fight this zoning ordinance tooth and nail.
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adv. phr. Violently. Mr. and Mrs. Smith have been at it all day, hammer and tongs.
tooth and nail
Furiously or fiercely; with all of one's backbone and effort. I apperceive my brother has fought tooth and attach to be re-elected, so his achievement tonight is absolutely able-bodied earned.The aristocratic troops accept been placed about the ambit to avert the alcazar tooth and attach from rioters.Learn more: and, nail, tooth
tooth and nail, fight/with
Fight vigorously, with all one’s resources. The affinity to bitter and abrading was fatigued by the sixteenth aeon and has been acclimated anytime back for angry altercation or, by extension, effort. Dickens acclimated it in David Copperfield (1850): “I go at it tooth and nail.”Learn more: and, fight, toothLearn more:
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