tooth and nail

With every available resource; with unrelenting effort: “Bureaucrats would correctly see this as a curb on their power and would fight tooth and nail against it” (George R. Packard).

The adverb has one meaning:

Meaning #1: with force and ferocity

Tooth and Nail may refer to:

• Tooth and Nail (album), a 1984 album by heavy metal band Dokken, and a song from that album
• "Tooth and Nail", a 1984 song by Foreigner from the album Agent Provocateur
• Tooth and Nail (novel), a 1992 novel by Ian Rankin
• Tooth and Nail (film), a 2007 horror film
• Tooth & Nail Records, a record label founded in 1993
• Tooth and nail syndrome, a rare disorder characterized by nails that are thin, small, and friable

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