Nails Phrases

Phrases

• Another nail in the coffin
• As hard as nails
• Bite your nails
• Cash on the nail
• Coffin nail
• 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
• Hit the nail on the head
• Like trying to nail jello to a wall
• Nail a lie
• Nail down
• Nail your colours to the mast
• On the nail
• Pay on the nail
• Tooth and nail
• When all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail