Romesh Ranganathan

People who are comfortable in their own skin I admire, but you don't know what's really going on. If you meet someone who says they nail being a human, they are as far away from nailing it as a human as you can possibly imagine.

British Comedian

Kim Cattrall

I got to L.A., and they said I had to lose weight, let my hair grow and buy some dresses. I was nailing auditions with my readings, but they wouldn't hire me because I wasn't putting on the glam. It just didn't occur to me.

English Actress

Nita Strauss

There were always people in the audience that judged me on the way I looked. They just assumed, because I was a girl, that I wasn't going to be any good, and it motivated me to improve and nail it every night.

American Musician

Gina Rodriguez

What makes characters real are details, and if you're crafting a person from scratch, you're probably not going to pay as much attention to a question like, 'Does this person bite their nails?

American Actress

Poppy Delevingne

I'm a bit of a bed head: I'm always running around with no make-up on and my hair in a mess, but my nails are one thing I do love to keep looking nice, so it's rare to see me without it.

English Model

Pauline Hanson

We have one of the highest interest rates in the world, and we owe more money per capita than any other country. All we need is a nail hole in the bottom of the boat and we're sunk.

Australian Politician

Rosalia

For years, I've been so passionate about nail art and about doing my nails constantly, with different nail artists from around the world.

Spanish Singer

Jamie Hewlett

You can write and write, but if you don't have someone who can nail that character, it's never going to live.

English Artist

George Groves

Once I've got that world title I'll never want to lose it. I'll fight tooth and nail to keep it.

British Athlete

Phoebe Robinson

I'm a nail biter and have been my whole life.

American Comedian

Used frequently in discussions about building or repairing things.

Construction Vocabulary

Sometimes used metaphorically to mean a crucial point in an argument or theory.

Metaphoric Uses

Often collocates with 'hammer' when talking about the action of using it.

Collocations Matter

Implies the physical action of fixing something firmly to another object.

Physical Action

Suggests making something immobile or secure so it doesn't move.

Securing Firmly

In informal contexts, means to do something very well or with precision.

Idiomatic Success

Emphasizes the successful achievement of a difficult task or goal.

Achievement Emphasis

Refers specifically to the hard covering at the end of your fingers and toes.

Body Part

Commonly associated with grooming and personal appearance.

Beauty Routine

Can imply nervousness or anxiety when used as an action ('biting ones nails').

Nail Biting

 and they can't take it from her. But yeah, elephants do never forget. Why do elephants have cushioned feet? That's a really good question. Elephants have cushioned feet to help spread their weight a bit more, because one of the things you don't want is elephants walking too far on the front of their feet on their nails, because that can cause lots of pressure, which can cause issues with their feet.

Do Elephants Cry? PIPE...

 it's simply because they wanted to keep us alive. All of my black friends were raised with the same message, the talk, given to us when we became old enough to be mistaken for a nail ready to be hammered to the ground, when people made our melanin synonymous with something to be feared. But what does it do to a child

How to raise a Black son...

 Well, I mean, why do any of us exist? Sloths exist because they are ridiculously cool and the world would be rubbish without them. Why do sloth's have such long claws, so um, I, to be fair, would probably call them nails rather than claws because they don't use them

Can Sloths Kill You? PIPE...

 turns out is neither regular nor that old anyway compared to the nail polish of the ancients nail polish of today has a lot more ingredients because it has to do a lot more things first and foremost the color has to speak to some deep longing within your soul

Nail Polish PIPE...

 on the ground fighting tooth and nail to save a Pangolin or save a bonobo or save a southern right whale conservationists are fighting really hard but let's face it they're behind they're not catching up and another world elephant day isn't

Making wildlife a part...

 in the atacama desert george has called in wildlife camerawoman sophie darlington her thermal camera will be able to capture the vampire bats feeding what we need to do to nail it is to see them feeding that's that would be extraordinary

Bizarre Bat Moments PIPE...

 in the atacama desert george has called in wildlife camerawoman sophie darlington her thermal camera will be able to capture the vampire bats feeding what we need to do to nail it is to see them feeding

Vampire Bats feeding on...

 However, both claws and nails are used in some unexpected ways. Manatees use nails to grasp their food, and researchers think elephant toenails may sense vibrations in the ground to help them hear.

Claws vs. nails -...

 water and hammers nails up his nose we brought to the public something that was sorely needed in our plastic humdrum yuppie eyes dworld in carnival Diablo Vanessa meal keeps alive a long and

Stunning Sideshow...

 one of the life skills that I had really nailed was tying my shoes. But not so -- let me demonstrate. This is the way that most of us were taught to tie our shoes.

Nail

A small metal spike with a broadened flat head, driven typically into wood to join things together or to serve as a peg or hook.

Often appears as...

Attach or fasten with a nail or nails.

Often appears as...

Succeed in securing or achieving.

Often appears as...

Usage tips

The hard protective substance at the tips of fingers and toes.

Often appears as...

Construction Vocabulary

Metaphoric Uses

Collocations Matter

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