hammer+and+tongs
11hammer and tongs — {adv. phr.} Violently. * /Mr. and Mrs. Smith have been at it all day, hammer and tongs./ …
12hammer\ and\ tongs — adv. phr. Violently. Mr. and Mrs. Smith have been at it all day, hammer and tongs …
13hammer and tongs — angrily, furiously, fight tooth and nail The two men were arguing going at it hammer and tongs …
14hammer-and-tongs — adjective see hammer and tongs …
15hammer and tongs — with great vigor, determination, or vehemence: When he starts a job he goes at it hammer and tongs. [1700 10] Syn. hard, energetically, fiercely, wholeheartedly. * * * …
16hammer and tongs — If people are going at it hammer and tongs, they are arguing fiercely. The idiom can also be used hen people are doing something energetically. (Dorking School Dictionary) …
17Hammer and tongs — If people are going at it hammer and tongs, they are arguing fiercely. The idiom can also be used hen people are doing something energetically …
18hammer and tongs — ham′mer and tongs′ adv. with great energy, determination, or vehemence; wholeheartedly • Etymology: 1700–10 …
19hammer and tongs — (Colloquial expression used adverbially.) Strenuously, vigorously, earnestly, zealously, resolutely, energetically, with all one s might, with might and main, tooth and nail, through thick and thin, through fire and water, pugnis et calcibus …
20hammer and tongs — Synonyms and related words: arduously, bec et ongles, committedly, decidedly, decisively, determinedly, devotedly, earnestly, effortfully, firmly, fixedly, hard, heart and soul, in all seriousness, in earnest, in good earnest, industriously,… …
