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Discover LudwigThe phrase "a nail into" is not correct in standard written English
It is typically used in contexts involving driving a nail into a surface, but the phrase itself is incomplete without additional context. Example: "He drove a nail into the wall to hang the picture."
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He drives a nail into his skull.
"But basically at the end," he continued, "I vomited a nail into my hand".
Then a Coney Island sideshow performer drove a nail into his nostril with a claw hammer.
Below, a figure labeled Obedientia (obedience) is hammering a nail into his feet.
He once had a toothache and so banged a nail into the tree.
You volunteer to hammer a nail into the wall for a friend, and the plaster collapses.
"Thou mayst knock a nail into his head," he suggests to Trinculo (Anthony O'Donnell).
When you pound a nail into wood, you create stress around the nail, and it can easily crack.
If you pound a nail into the end of a piece of lumber, it has minimal holding power.
One of the tests consisted of driving a nail into a battery cell to provoke a short circuit.
"Can't you see I'm singing?" asked the male singer when Fred started to hammer a nail into a plank.
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