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another nail in the coffin be a bed of nails be as hard as nails be as tough as old boots bite nails fight hammer and tongs fight tooth and claw fight tooth and nail For want of a nail the shoe was lost; for want of a shoe the horse ... go at one another tooth and nail

hard as nails hit the nail on the head like nailing jelly to the wall mad enough to chew nails nail back nail colours to the mast nail down nail ears back nail in coffin nail in the coffin of

nail into nail onto nail to a cross nail to the wall nail up nail-biting on the nail pin down spit nails tough as nails