Talk:squint like a bag of nails

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Moved here from the entry, because it said "quotations which may not support the sense given above":

1. • 1947, Robert Briffault, New life of Mr. Martin:

     '[If you think] I'm going to find a billet for a good-for-nothing unclassed bollox, you're mighty mistaken,' said he, looking up at me for the first time, squinting like a bag of nails. 'This is a shipping office, not a refuge for stray dogs.'

   • 1996, Alan Garner, Strandloper:

     "'Arrah,' says I, 'do you squint like a bag of nails, that you can't see a man before you?'"

     "And I says, 'Hold your mag, frig pig,'" said Renter […]

Equinox ◑ 19:05, 18 July 2017 (UTC)