Sentence examples for biting your fingernails from inspiring English sources

"Sometimes I get in situations where you should be biting your fingernails off.

Whoever said smoking is a habit has no idea -- a habit is biting your fingernails".

When Will Rogers showed his niece the "Venus de Milo", he told her: "See what will happen if you don't stop biting your fingernails?" These days, of course, he might sooner suggest that Aphrodite had simply said something to annoy Luis Suarez.

Reading more about personal finance, writing in your journal, tweaking your budget, stop biting your fingernails, exercising more?

Stop biting your fingernails.

Avoid biting your fingernails.

First you bite your fingernails.

("Where is your dress from?" he asks. And, later, exhibiting high-level surveillance skills that feel, as in Homeland, mildly operational: "You bite your fingernails, but not all of them").

For now, much of the preventive medical advice doled out by team doctors in Athens sounds familiar to the non-Olympian, as well: Wash your hands frequently; do not bite your fingernails or put your hands in your mouth; do not share cups or towels; drink lots of bottled water; and avoid buffets and fish, particularly raw fish.

I'm sure that by then you'll have bitten your fingernails down to the quick, but if you can stand to glance away from Ladbrokes' ticker for half an hour or so, I suggest you read Michael Specter's 1998 piece "The Nobel Syndrome" (available to subscribers).

First, I doubt we'll all survive until 2154 and if we do we'll all be living in skin huts out on the tundra and second what happens if you bit your fingernails.