nail scissors
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of nail scissors
First recorded in 1850–55
Example Sentences
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Some ads were then unfolded and briefly examined; in one video, a few items were cut out of one with nail scissors.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 20, 2019
It could end with one of those sore throats that feels as if you have swallowed a pair of nail scissors.
From New York Times ● Dec. 1, 2017
Lennon’s bandmate Ringo Starr once had his hair quickly chopped by an 18-year-old girl with a pair of nail scissors at a D.C. charity ball.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 21, 2016
These include people who attend to your cosmetic vanities with shears, nail scissors, and such, and people who attend to your home.
From Slate ● Jan. 8, 2015
She used toilet roll as bandages and cut into them with nail scissors and squirted tomato ketchup on them.
From "The London Eye Mystery" by Siobhan Dowd
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