23-N by Beverly

Welcome once again to ABC Wednesday, where each week we focus on a new letter and share our choices for that letter.

This week N is the star. My choice – N is for Nail.

Nails can be several things:

Nouns:

Finger- and toenails. They can be shaped, coloured and cut. They can also reveal signs of illness.

After having my nails shellacked for my daughter’s wedding, I had the shellack removed – which left my lovely nails brittle and easily broken. Now I am trying to grow them back again. (It was most definitely worth it tho, as it was a wonderful day, a wonderful wedding)

Nails can also be what builders use to build and create with.

My son just finished rebuilding our back porch, including the stairs and without nails it would have been a most challenging task.

Verbs:

To nail someone means to catch them in the act of usually doing something wrong.

To nail it means to get something right.

There are many notable “nail“idioms we use:

hard as nails

nail-biter

hit the nail on the head

fight tooth and nail

final nail in the coffin

a bed of nails

spit nails

Here’s my art tag with the stamp I carved for nail:

9 thoughts on “23-N by Beverly”

with work that ‘housewifes’ do in general, nails Always suffer don’t they ? 😉

Still… a nice choice for this weeks letter of course

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You NAILED that intro!

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I wanted to comment “you have nailed it!” and then realized that Roger has done the same already 🙂
Have a great week!

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Beverly,

My nails are horrible right now. They go through cycles where their strong but as soon as I trim the down they struggle to regain strength. I don’t know what to do about the rough ridges other than to bufflehead them away. Do you have any clues?

This is a fun post. I enjoyed idioms and different word usage for ‘nail’. Cleverly done…or should I say you nailed this post! 🙂

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