Manicure Phrases

Phrases

• After a fashion
• An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure
• Another nail in the coffin
• Cash on the nail
• Clip joint
• Clip your wings
• Coffin nail
• Fashion victim
• Fight tooth and nail
• For want of a nail the shoe was lost (line from nursery rhyme)
• For want of a nail the shoe was lost; for want of a shoe the horse was lost; and for want of a horse the man was lost
• Friday I'm In Love (The Cure song)
• Hit the nail on the head
• If you keep late hours for Society's sake, Bromo-Seltzer will cure that headache (Bromo-Seltzer advertising slogan)
• Kill or cure
• Leading fashion hub
• Like trying to nail jello to a wall
• Nail a lie
• Nail down
• Nail your colours to the mast
• On the nail
• Parrot fashion
• Pay on the nail
• Prevention is better than cure
• Ship shape and Bristol fashion
• The height of fashion
• Tooth and nail
• When all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail