Meaning of tooth and tong | Babel Free

Definitions

Presenting a vigorous and unified opposition.

Examples

“In 1935, I think it was, when a number of Senators and Congressmen introduced grain alcohol bills similar to the one Senator Mundt and I have introduced—but we are told those bills were fought tooth and tong by the oil interests, hence never became law.”

“Mrs. Meier, wife of the under sheriff at the jail, turned against me. And Duane West is one of my bitterest enemies. And they were sort of working tooth and tong.”

“The old guard is fighting his economic reforms tooth and tong.”

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