com unhas e dentes
Portuguese, adverb
com unhas e dentes is a Portuguese adverb meaning “tooth and nail (passionately; intensely; at any cost)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).
What does com unhas e dentes mean in English?
adverb
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tooth and nail (passionately; intensely; at any cost)
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
phrase: 1. com todas as forças; ferozmente
The definition in the Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário), in Portuguese.
Source: Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.