Nails

Pithy sentences are like sharp nails which force truth upon our memory.
—Denis Diderot

hit the nail on the head
tough as nails
for want of a nail the shoe was lost
go at it tooth and nail

nail it
it's a nail in the coffin

If you only have a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.
—Abraham Maslow

Painting is a nail to which I fasten my ideas.
—Georges Braque

hobnailed
tenaille
thumbnail

Simplicity, simplicity, simplicity! I say, let your affairs be as two or three, and not a hundred or a thousand instead of a million count half a dozen, and keep your accounts on your thumb-nail.”

Henry David Thoreau


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