Discussion
The following idiom is followed by four meanings. Indicate which is correct.
To fight tooth and nail.
Answer: C
To fight tooth and nail means to make every possible effort to win.
The idiom pictures someone fighting with every weapon available, even teeth and nails, and so describes a fierce, determined struggle, as in 'the residents fought tooth and nail to save the park'.
It says nothing about the battle being lost, so (A) is wrong; 'heroically' adds a moral quality the idiom lacks; and fighting in a cowardly way is the opposite of its sense.
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