FIGHT TOOTH AND NAIL

Meaning of FIGHT TOOTH AND NAIL in English

fight hard, fight like an animal

Canadian women fought tooth and nail for the right to vote.

Wayne Magnuson. English idioms vocabulary. Словарь английских идиом. 2012

FIGHT TOOTH AND NAIL — fight hard, fight with everything one has
Толковый словарь английского языка - Редакция bed
FIGHT TOOTH AND NAIL — fight very fiercely. → tooth
Concise Oxford English vocab
FIGHT TOOTH AND NAIL — to fight in a very determined way for what you want : The residents are fighting tooth and nail to …
Oxford Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
FIGHT TOOTH AND NAIL — see tooth
Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
FIGHT TOOTH AND NAIL — see tooth
Collins COBUILD - Толковый словарь английского языка для изучающих язык
FIGHT TOOTH AND NAIL — See: TOOTH AND NAIL.
Slang English vocab
FIGHT TOOTH AND NAIL — See: TOOTH AND NAIL.
Словарь английских идиом
FIGHT TOOTH AND NAIL — fight fiercely or with all one`s might He is fighting tooth and nail to get a transfer to another department.
English Idioms vocab
FIGHT TOOTH AND NAIL — бороться не на жизнь
English-Russian-dictionary - Bed release
FIGHT TOOTH AND NAIL — бороться не на жизнь
English-Russian-dictionary - Bed release
TOOTH — I. ˈtüth noun ( plural teeth ˈtēth) Usage: often attributive Etymology: Middle English toth, tooth, from Old English tōth; akin …
Webster's New International English Dictionary
NAIL — I. ˈnāl, esp before pause or consonant ˈnāəl noun ( -s ) Usage: often attributive Etymology: Middle English, from Old …
Webster's New International English Dictionary
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Webster's New International English Dictionary
NAIL — — nailless , adj. — naillike , adj. /nayl/ , n. 1. a slender, typically rod-shaped rigid piece of metal, …
Random House Webster's Unabridged English Dictionary
FIGHT — — fightable , adj. — fightability , n. — fightingly , adv. /fuyt/ , n. , v. , fought, fighting …
Random House Webster's Unabridged English Dictionary
NAIL — I. ˈnāl noun Etymology: Middle English, from Old English nægl; akin to Old High German nagal nail, fingernail, Latin unguis …
Merriam-Webster's Collegiate English vocabulary
FIGHT — I. ˈfīt verb ( fought ˈfȯt ; fight·ing ) Etymology: Middle English, from Old English feohtan; akin to Old High …
Merriam-Webster's Collegiate English vocabulary
TOOTH — noun ( plural teeth ˈtēth) Etymology: Middle English, from Old English tōth; akin to Old High German zand tooth, Latin …
Merriam-Webster's Collegiate English vocabulary
TOOTH — noun fig.: taste; palate. 2. tooth ·vt to furnish with teeth. 3. tooth ·vt to lock into each other. ·see …
Webster English vocab
NAIL — noun to spike, as a cannon. 2. nail ·noun to stud or boss with nails, or as with nails. 3. …
Webster English vocab
FIGHT
Webster English vocab
NAIL — [nail] n [ME, fr. OE naegl; akin to OHG nagal nail, fingernail, L unguis fingernail, toenail, claw, Gk onyx] (bef. …
Merriam-Webster English vocab
FIGHT — [fight] vb fought ; fight.ing [ME, fr. OE feohtan; akin to OHG fehtan to fight and perh. to L pectere …
Merriam-Webster English vocab
NAIL
Britannica English vocabulary
NAIL — nail, Nail BrE AmE neɪ ə l ▷ nailed neɪ ə ld ▷ nailing ˈneɪ ə l ɪŋ ▷ nails …
Longman Pronunciation English Dictionary
TOOTH
Oxford Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
NAIL
Oxford Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
FIGHT — / faɪt; NAmE / verb , noun ■ verb ( fought , fought / fɔːt; NAmE /) IN WAR / …
Oxford Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
TOOTH — tooth S2 W2 /tuːθ/ BrE AmE noun ( plural teeth /tiːθ/) [countable] [ Language: Old English ; Origin: toth ] …
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
NAIL — I. nail 1 S3 /neɪl/ BrE AmE noun [countable] [ Language: Old English ; Origin: nægl ] 1 . a …
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
TOOTH — n. & v. --n. (pl. teeth) 1 each of a set of hard bony enamel-coated structures in the jaws of …
Английский основной разговорный словарь
NAIL — n. & v. --n. 1 a small usu. sharpened metal spike with a broadened flat head, driven in with a …
Английский основной разговорный словарь
FIGHT
Английский основной разговорный словарь
TOOTH — n. & v. n. (pl. teeth) 1 each of a set of hard bony enamel-coated structures in the jaws of …
Concise Oxford English Dictionary
NAIL — n. & v. n. 1 a small usu. sharpened metal spike with a broadened flat head, driven in with a …
Concise Oxford English Dictionary
FIGHT
Concise Oxford English Dictionary
TOOTH — n. & v. --n. (pl. teeth) 1. each of a set of hard bony enamel-coated structures in the jaws of …
Oxford English vocab
NAIL — n. & v. --n. 1. a small usu. sharpened metal spike with a broadened flat head, driven in with a …
Oxford English vocab
FIGHT
Oxford English vocab
TOOTH — ( teeth) Frequency: The word is one of the 3000 most common words in English. 1. Your teeth are the …
Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
NAIL — ( nails, nailing, nailed) 1. A nail is a thin piece of metal with one pointed end and one flat …
Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
FIGHT — ( fights, fighting, fought) Frequency: The word is one of the 700 most common words in English. 1. If you …
Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
FIGHT — (~s, ~ing, fought) Frequency: The word is one of the 700 most common words in English. 1. If you ~ …
Collins COBUILD - Толковый словарь английского языка для изучающих язык
TOOTH — noun COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES armed to the teeth (= carrying a lot of weapons ) ▪ Many of the …
Longman DOCE5 Extras English vocabulary
NAIL — I. noun COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES a nail bomb (= containing nails ) as tough as nails/as tough as old …
Longman DOCE5 Extras English vocabulary
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Longman DOCE5 Extras English vocabulary
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Longman DOCE5 Extras English vocabulary
TOOTH — (MOUTH) [noun] [C] [plural] teeth - any of the hard white objects in the mouth, which are used for biting …
Cambridge English vocab
FIGHT — [noun] [C]The older boys broke up (= stopped)/started the fight.Have you got tickets for the big fight (= boxing competition)?I …
Cambridge English vocab
TOOTH — Synonyms and related words : Vandyke, aftertaste, asperity, baby tooth, bicuspid, bitter, blaze, bucktooth, bumpiness, canine, chop, choppiness, coarsen, cog, …
Moby Thesaurus English vocabulary
FIGHT — Synonyms and related words : Olympic games, Olympics, a outrance, action, aerial combat, affray, against, aggression, aggressiveness, agonize, altercate, altercation, …
Moby Thesaurus English vocabulary
NAIL — noun 1 on the fingers/toes ⇨ See also ↑ fingernail , ↑ toenail ADJECTIVE ▪ long , short ▪ sharp …
Oxford Collocations English Dictionary
FIGHT
Oxford Collocations English Dictionary
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Longman Activator English vocab
FIGHT — See ↑ ARGUE 1, ↑ COMPETE WITH 2, ↑ FIGHT 1,4,6,6,7,9, ↑ VOTE 7, ↑ WAR 2 ◆◆◆ • ↑ …
Longman Activator English vocab
TOOTH — n. 25B6; noun FANG, tusk; Zoology denticle; informal gnasher; Brit. informal pearly white. See lists. dental. Human Teeth bicuspid molar …
Concise Oxford Thesaurus English vocabulary
FIGHT
Concise Oxford Thesaurus English vocabulary
FIGHT — v. 1 contend (with), battle, conflict (with), encounter, war (against), engage, clash, take up arms (against), feud (with), combat, bear …
Oxford Thesaurus English vocab
FIGHT — verb BAD : They spent the whole night fighting against the fire. GOOD : They spent the whole night fighting …
Longman Common Errors English vocabulary
TOOTH — 1. сущ. 1) зуб crown of the tooth ≈ коронка зуба neck of the tooth ≈ шейка зуба to brush, …
Большой Англо-Русский словарь
NAIL — 1. сущ. 1) ноготь to cut, pare, trim one's nails ≈ стричь ногти to do, manicure one's nails ≈ делать …
Большой Англо-Русский словарь
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Большой Англо-Русский словарь
TOOTH — tooth.ogg 1. tu:θ n ( pl teeth) 1. зуб milk /calf's, primary, first, baby's, deciduous/ teeth - молочные зубы he …
Англо-Русско-Английский словарь общей лексики - Сборник из лучших словарей

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