Talk:squint like a bag of nails
Latest comment: 7 years ago by Equinox in topic More possible cites
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[edit]Moved here from the entry, because it said "quotations which may not support the sense given above":
- 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 […]
- 1947, Robert Briffault, New life of Mr. Martin: