Meaning: agnail

n.
a loose narrow strip of skin near the base of a fingernail; tearing it produces a painful sore that is easily infected

if all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail Idiom, Proverb

a nail-biter

"exciting game or movie; having much suspense" Have you seen the movie The Fugitive? It's a nail-biter.

another nail in your coffin

"another cigarette; harmful substance" Every cigarette he smoked was another nail in his coffin.

as slow as a dead snail

unbeatable in slowness He writes as slow as a dead snail, only a word or two per day!

dead as a doornail

dead, showing no signs of life, stone dead It's only a stuffed bear. It's dead as a doornail.

fight tooth and nail

fight fiercely or with all one

hard as nails

physically very fit and strong, rough, stern He is as hard as nails and is not a good person to have an argument with.

hit the nail on the head

make a correct guess or analysis He really hit the nail on the head when he wrote the report about the bank

nail-biter

(See a nail-biter)

nail down

get a clear answer, find out, pin down I've checked the books, but I can't nail down the reason for the loss. I can't find the error.

nail him

hit him, hurt him, stop him They want to nail him because he beat up on Tommy.

if all you accept is a hammer, aggregate looks like a nail

One ability not see things acutely if one relies too abundant on a accurate tool, method, or mindset. This byword is about attributed to 20th-century analyst Abraham Maslow. The agitation with these Freudian advisers is that they don't apprehend some things can be taken at face value. If all you accept is a hammer, aggregate looks like a nail, you know?Learn more: all, everything, have, if, like, look, nail

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