tooth and nail

Etymology
From the phrase.

Adverb

 * 1)  Viciously; with all one's strength or power; without holding back.
 * , Charles Reade, 1887, Charles L. Reade, Compton Reade, Charles Reade, Dramatist, Novelist, Journalist: A Memoir Compiled Chiefly from His Literary Remains, Volume 2, page 229:
 * "I shall fight tooth and nail for international copyright and stage-right, ."
 * 1) * 2011 , "Pilot" (season 1, episode 1):
 * Jeremy DeLongpre: Yeah, about that Tony nomination. Richard DeLongpre: Yeah, apparently they don't nominate plays that are staged in our living room. Not over, fighting 'em tooth and nail on it.
 * 1) * 2011 , "Pilot" (season 1, episode 1):
 * Jeremy DeLongpre: Yeah, about that Tony nomination. Richard DeLongpre: Yeah, apparently they don't nominate plays that are staged in our living room. Not over, fighting 'em tooth and nail on it.
 * 1) * 2011 , "Pilot" (season 1, episode 1):
 * Jeremy DeLongpre: Yeah, about that Tony nomination. Richard DeLongpre: Yeah, apparently they don't nominate plays that are staged in our living room. Not over, fighting 'em tooth and nail on it.

Usage notes

 * The variant with tooth and nail is attested as early as the 16th century; see for example, The Psalmes of David and others. With M. John Calvins Commentaries, 1571, “Epistle Dedicatorie”:
 * [They] labour with tooth and nayle too winde their owne trash into credit with all men, and to bring the heavenly doctrine of the Gospel in hatred.
 * The variant tooth and claw sometimes appears (though not as an adverb) as the fuller phrase nature, red in tooth and claw, which quotes 1850, Alfred Tennyson, In Memoriam A. H. H. —
 * Who trusted God was love indeed
 * And love Creation’s final law?
 * Tho’ Nature, red in tooth and claw
 * With ravine, shriek’d against his creed?

Translations

 * Catalan: amb dents i ungles
 * Czech:
 * Dutch: met hand en tand
 * Finnish: kynsin hampain
 * French:
 * German: mit Händen und Füßen
 * Hungarian: foggal-körömmel
 * Italian: con le unghie e con i denti
 * Latvian: ar nagiem un zobiem
 * Norwegian: med nebb och klør
 * Portuguese:
 * Serbo-Croatian: zubima i noktima
 * Spanish: con uñas y dientes, a brazo partido,
 * Swedish: