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Tooth and Nail

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In right good earnest, like a rat or mouse biting and scratching to get at something.

 

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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.

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Tonsures
Tontine
Tony Lumpkin
Too Many for [Me] or One too many for [me]
Tooba or Touba [eternal happiness]
Tool
Tooley Street
Toom Tabard [empty jacket]
Tooth
Tooth and Egg
Tooth and Nail
Top
Top-heavy
Top Ropes
Top-Sawyer
Topham
Tophet
Topic
Topsy
Topsy-turvy
Toralva