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Red Tooth Claw Idiom Reference Violent Natural World

Phrase/Idiom red in tooth and claw
Definition This idiom is a reference to the sometimes violent natural world, in which predatory animals unsentimentally cover their teeth and claws with the blood of their prey as they kill and devour them.
Example This is nature, red in tooth and claw.

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