I was more impressed when she nailed a few less flattering character traits.
“During the test, we tried all the dances and I nailed none of them,” says Boseman with a chuckle.
Neither Cantor nor any of the great singers who nailed their impressions are the true stars of the original video.
Kate Mulgrew and Lorraine Toussaint tell the behind-the-scenes story about how they nailed the brilliant scene.
But when they got to the airport, the FBI nailed him, the hostages were freed, and the movie was over.
He was nailed to a cross, and left suspended there till He died.
It was to him like the sound made by a nailed boot upon rock.
And on the wall hung a fish, nailed against it with four nails.
It'll take him over an hour to do it, the boards will be nailed so cussedly tight.
nailed several anti-saloon and burlesque planks in his platform.
Old English negel "metal pin," nægl "fingernail (handnægl), toenail," from Proto-Germanic *naglaz (cf. Old Norse nagl "fingernail," nagli "metal nail;" Old Saxon and Old High German nagel, Old Frisian neil, Middle Dutch naghel, Dutch nagel, German Nagel "fingernail, small metal spike"), from PIE root *(o)nogh "nail" (cf. Greek onyx "claw, fingernail;" Latin unguis "nail, claw;" Old Church Slavonic noga "foot," noguti "nail, claw;" Lithuanian naga "hoof," nagutis "fingernail;" Old Irish ingen, Old Welsh eguin "nail, claw").
The "fingernail" sense seems to be the original one. Nail polish attested from 1891. To bite one's nails as a sign of anxiety is attested from 1570s. Nail-biting is from 1805. Hard as nails is from 1828. To hit the nail on the head "say or do just the right thing" is first recorded 1520s. Phrase on the nail "on the spot, exactly" is from 1590s, of obscure origin; OED says it is not even certain it belongs to this sense of nail.
Old English næglian "to fasten with nails," from Proto-Germanic *ganaglijanan (cf. Old Saxon neglian, Old Norse negla, Old High German negilen, German nageln, Gothic ganagljan "to nail"), from the root of nail (n.). Related: Nailed; nailing. Meaning "to catch, seize" is first recorded 1766, probably from earlier sense "to keep fixed in a certain position" (1610s). Meaning "to succeed in hitting" is from 1886. To nail down "to fix down with nails" is from 1660s.
nail (nāl)
n.
A fingernail or toenail.
A slender rod used in operations to fasten together the divided extremities of a broken bone.
adjective
noun
A hypodermic needle (1960s+ Narcotics)
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