nail-biter

Definitions

Examples

• But on Tuesday, we saw another nail hammered into the already pretty tightly nailed down coffin of the two-state solution.

• The CID speculated that the woman was confirming who lived there before planting a homemade nail bomb.

• MOSCOW—Every now and then I run into Anna Chapman at a nail salon called “Little Fingers” on Potapovsky Avenue in downtown Moscow.

• Along the way, he accidentally embeds a nail in his foot, which is not symbolic at all.

• The phrase means, “the nail that sticks out always gets hit by a hammer.”

• Piegan snorted when I told him we were on the dodge—that they were trying to nail us for holding up the paymaster.

• "Well, as far as public opinion goes, I s'pose Tom has hit the nail on the head," observed Bill.

• He pulled his heavy sweater down off a nail and put it on, scowling because the sleeves had to be pulled in place on his arms.

• He disliked the look of Cash's rough coat and sweater and cap, that hung on a nail over Cash's bunk.

• You,” said I. “You drive a nail as if it were an abstruse problem in differential calculus.