"red in tooth and claw" meaning in All languages combined

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  "etymology_text": "From Alfred, Lord Tennyson's poem In Memoriam A.H.H.",
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          "text": "We love nature, but nature doesn't love us. One night in the Amazon rainforest will show us that nature is red in tooth and claw.",
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          "text": "And he, shall he,\nMan, her last work, who seem’d so fair, […]\nWho trusted God was love indeed\nAnd love Creation’s final law—\nTho’ Nature, red in tooth and claw\nWith ravine, shriek’d against his creed— […]\nBe blown about the desert dust,\nOr seal’d within the iron hills?",
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        "Characterized by uncaring, amoral ruthlessness or brutality, especially of a kind seen as reflecting the way of things in nature."
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        {
          "word": "tooth and nail"
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  "word": "red in tooth and claw"
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