16 Metaphors for nails

All the inkstains of his youth had been obliterated, and those nails which had once been bitten to the quick during the throes of financial study were now things of beauty.

My skin changes every year, my hair never belongs to me a month, the nail on my hand is only a passing possession.

Have a semicircle before every lesson, and make the children keep their toes to the mark; brass nails driven in the floor are the best, or flat brass or iron let into the floor.

Now he pressed his fingers on it so hard that the nails became a row of red spots.

These aristocratic nails are generally half an inch long, though I saw one man whose nails were quite an inch in length, but only on his left hand.

The "Big Nail" we have heard of as the Eskimos' Pole, was a high-pointed mountain in the Farthest North on which the sky rested and turned around with the sun, moon, and stars.

His hair covered almost all his face, his beard appeared like a piece of dirty cloth, his nails were claws, and his countenance was so covered with dirt that one might have grown cresses upon it if one had sown seed!

Who could have imagined that "bag o' nails," was a corruption of the Bacchanals, which it evidently is from the rude epigraph still subjoined to the fractured classicism of the title?

As the nail was scarcely three-quarters of an inch long,not long enough to go clear through and injure the inner coating on the opposite side,it was entirely practical to reinsert and run until it worked out.

THE HUMAN NAILS are thickenings of the lowermost layer of the horny portion of the epidermis, the stratum lucidum.

The nails were very large, the heads about the size of a crown piece, and the thickness that of a man's thumb, while the points came through at the back of the cross.

In other words, a nail is simply a thick layer of horny scales built from the outer part of the scarf skin.

The next day further trading was done, nails being the chief medium of exchange, but the natives were inclined to be smart in their dealings, and on several occasions obtained payment without delivery.

The sensations experienced at revisiting a place which had so seasonably afforded us a friendly shelter and such unlooked-for convenience for our purposes, can only be estimated by those who have experienced them; and it is only to strangers to such feelings that it will appear ridiculous to say, that even the nail to which our thermometer had been suspended, was the subject of pleasurable recognition.

Drivin' a pesky nail's a huckleberry above my persimmon.

THE HUMAN NAILS are thickenings of the lowermost layer of the horny portion of the epidermis, the stratum lucidum.

16 Metaphors for  nails