pugnis et calcibus
1pugnis et calcibus — [L.] With fists and heels, with all one s might, tooth and nail, hammer and tongs …
2PUGIL — dictus a pugna, et pugna a pugno, inquit Donatus in Prolog. Hecyrae, Veteres namque ante usum ferri et xrmorum, pugnis et calcibus et morsibus, corporumque luctatione certabant. Similiter, qui Latinis Pugil, Graecis πύκτης, a πὺξ, pugnô. Ita ergo …
3PANCRATIUM — Graece Παγκράτιον, aliter Suidâ teste Παμμάχιον, Pugilatui posterioribus temporibusaccessit; inque eo pugnis et calcibus certatum est: Proin tertium quoddam exercitationis Gymnasticae fuit genus, ex lucta et pugilatu compositum. Quare… …
4Exertion — (Roget s Thesaurus) < N PARAG:Exertion >N GRP: N 1 Sgm: N 1 exertion exertion effort strain tug pull stress throw stretch struggle spell spurt spirt Sgm: N 1 stroke of work stroke …
5No. 249 Squadron RAF — No. 249 (Gold Coast) Squadron RAF Active 18 August 1918 8 October 1919 16 May 1940 16 August 1945 23 October 1945 24 February 1969 Country …
6hammer 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 …
7strenuously — ad. 1. Earnestly, ardently, eagerly, vigorously, zealously, resolutely, energetically, actively, with all one s might, with might and main, tooth and nail, through thick and thin, through fire and water, hammer and tongs, pugnis et calcibus. 2.… …
8tooth and nail — (Colloquial expression used adverbially.) 1. Biting and scratching, using every means of attack and defence. 2. Strenuously, vigorously, earnestly, resolutely, energetically, with all one s might, with might and main, through thick and thin,… …
