"Or they might get a splinter.
And if anyone did get a splinter they probably had a good laugh about it.
He got a splinter imbedded in his arm and decided to visit a neighbour who might help him remove it.
When you play with a hoop, be careful or you'll get a splinter in your finger.
"But then the minute they get out there, they get a splinter and they're running back inside to get a Band-Aid".
"Before I start, I put on goggles," he said, slipping on a pair, "because I once got a splinter in my eye as I clipped a branch".
If we get a splinter in our heel, we just start walking on our tiptoes, we don't even think about how we're doing it".
"I was nude sunbathing, and I got a splinter in my butt," Mr. LaMagna explained in his customary direct manner one morning last month when he was the guest speaker at the Long Island Forum for Technology at a Farmingdale restaurant.
When the P.G.A. Championship is played at Baltusrol next month, will rush-hour traffic be affected?" Dakota's Medical Crisis: When Dakota Fanning, playing Mr. Cruise's daughter, gets a splinter, father and daughter debate what to do, ultimately leaving it untreated.
Along the way, she says, she was raped and abused, and like the boy in "The Snow Queen," who gets a splinter of ice in his eye, she has come to see the world as an irredeemably cold and ugly place.
