Election Turns Into Nail-Biter That May Extend for Days
- President Trump won a series of key battlegrounds, none more significant than Florida.
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nail, on the nail, cash on the nail
cash on the nail 即金で;
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Incidentally, the US equivalent is cash on the barrelhead or cash on the barrel. Unlike cash on the nail,
this may have had a literal connection, either to the barrels used as
informal counters in old-time general stores or to merchants refusing to
hand over a barrel containing goods until it had been paid for. But it
appears to be surprisingly modern: the earliest example I can find is
dated 1906.
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Cash on the nail
MeaningPayment made immediately.
Origin
'Cash on the nail' (or 'pay on the nail') is an extension of the earlier phrase - 'on the nail', meaning immediate payment; without delay. This expression is first recorded in English in Thomas Nashe'sHaue with you to Saffron-Walden, 1596:Anne Hathaway is no Gwyneth Paltrow. That's not editorializing on TIME's part but a simple fact when it comes to comparing the two American actresses' attempts to nail a convincing British accent. While Paltrow has excelled in the likes of Emma, Sliding Doors, Shakespeare in Love and Sylvia, Hathaway's hapless hammering of the Yorkshire dialect via the part of Emma Morley in One Day is heinous enough to almost bar her from visiting England.
I place an order for coffee from Verve. When two different roasts arrive
and I make a show of my excitement, my wife rolls her eyes. She
challenges whether I can even tell the difference between the new coffee
and two other blends I used to swear by. So we do a blind smell test.
I nail it. My wife seems surprised; who is this new discerning creature?
Just getting started, I tell her. Wait until you see what we can do
with milk.
nail
(nāl)
n.
- A slim, pointed piece of metal hammered into material as a fastener.
- A fingernail or toenail.
- A claw or talon.
- Something resembling a nail in shape, sharpness, or use.
- A measure of length formerly used for cloth, equal to 1/16 yard (5.7 centimeters).
- To fasten, join, or attach with or as if with a nail.
- To cover, enclose, or shut by fastening with nails: nail up a window.
- To keep fixed, motionless, or intent: Fear nailed me to my seat.
- Slang.
- To stop and seize; catch: Police nailed the suspect.
- To detect and expose: nailed the senator in a lie; nail corruption before it gets out of control.
- And in a long, white glittering dress, she seized her moment. She relied on subtlety along with lung power. Perhaps her voice was a little scratchier, at times, than before her illness. But the drama of the momeYes, she nailed the landing.nt was matched by the dynamics of her performance, rising to an unaccompanied peak before a triumphant final phrase.
nail down
- To discover or establish conclusively: nailed down the story by checking all the facts.
- To win: nailed down another victory in the golf tournament.
- To specify or fix: We were finally able to nail down a meeting time.
[Middle English, from Old English nægl, fingernail, toenail.]
nailer nail'er n.on the nail
1. Immediately, without delay, as in He paid us back on the nail. [c. 1600]
2. Under discussion or consideration, as in The subject of the budget deficit has been on the nail for some time. [Late 1800s] The precise allusion in these expressions has been lost. Neither has any connection to hit the nail on the head (see under hit the bull's-eye).
hangnail
(hăng'nāl')
n.
A small piece of dead skin at the side or the base of a fingernail that is partly detached from the rest of the skin.
[名]（爪の根元の）ささくれ, 逆むけ.
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