"tooth and tong" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "Blend of tooth and nail + hammer and tongs",
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  "pos": "adv",
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          "ref": "1957, United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Agriculture and Forestry, Agricultural Situation and Farm Programs",
          "text": "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.",
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          "ref": "1973, Denis Brian, Murderers and Other Friendly People",
          "text": "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.",
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          "ref": "1991, Richard Herman, Firebreak, page 71",
          "text": "The old guard is fighting his economic reforms tooth and tong.",
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        "Presenting a vigorous and unified opposition."
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          "ref": "1957, United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Agriculture and Forestry, Agricultural Situation and Farm Programs",
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