eat nails

To act in an angry, often intimidating, manner. Don't talk to that guy, he looks like he eats nails for breakfast! Can you believe she said that to me? Oh, I could eat nails!

eat nails

tv. to do something extreme in extreme anger. (see also mad enough to eat nails.) Sam was ready to eat nails.

See also: eat, nail

McGraw-Hill's Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions

See also:

a dog's breakfast/dinner
brekkie
(as) tough as nails
tough as nails
be (as) hard as nails
a dog's breakfast
(as) hard as nails
hard as nails
from hell to breakfast
angry enough to chew nails

References in periodicals archive

"I told Tommy I felt like I could eat nails, so he let me take control," Robles said.

Robles/Valenzuela snare 50+ doubles

Belichick is an East Coast guy who hangs out with the reclusive Ernie Adams and would rather eat nails than wear a tie.

Super Sunday; Brady, Belichick together by chance, still winning titles

She describes her job in much the same way as many of us might describe our own work: "You get up in the morning and eat nails for breakfast, you don a full suit of armor, and then you go to the floor, where you do battle." The only difference is the venue--we do battle every day in courtrooms across America, while the Speaker does battle in the halls of Congress.

"Know Your Power"

"I'm mad enough to eat nails right now," Stevens said after the vote.

Boxer's rebellion. (North America)

After narrowly losing this vote, the senior senator, who chairs the committee that funds the zoo, said he was "mad enough to eat nails," which may or may not produce a quicker death than that suffered by two endangered red pandas that ate rat poison scattered about their National Zoo enclosure in January by cut-rate exterminators.

Home fires burning: around the wartime capital. (Letter From Washington)

He brushed aside characterisations of himself as a stubborn man who eats nails for breakfast, saying with a laugh: "All of these are exaggerations - I don't eat nails." But he added: "It's right - I am a man of principles."

Poles apart - divided we stand; As Israel reaches its half century, Howard Goller looks at the couple w ho helped create it

词组	eat nails
释义	eat nails eat nails To act in an angry, often intimidating, manner. Don't talk to that guy, he looks like he eats nails for breakfast! Can you believe she said that to me? Oh, I could eat nails! See also: eat, nail Farlex Dictionary of Idioms. eat nails tv. to do something extreme in extreme anger. (see also mad enough to eat nails.) Sam was ready to eat nails. See also: eat, nail McGraw-Hill's Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions See also: a dog's breakfast/dinner brekkie (as) tough as nails tough as nails be (as) hard as nails a dog's breakfast (as) hard as nails hard as nails from hell to breakfast angry enough to chew nails References in periodicals archive "I told Tommy I felt like I could eat nails, so he let me take control," Robles said. Robles/Valenzuela snare 50+ doubles Belichick is an East Coast guy who hangs out with the reclusive Ernie Adams and would rather eat nails than wear a tie. Super Sunday; Brady, Belichick together by chance, still winning titles She describes her job in much the same way as many of us might describe our own work: "You get up in the morning and eat nails for breakfast, you don a full suit of armor, and then you go to the floor, where you do battle." The only difference is the venue--we do battle every day in courtrooms across America, while the Speaker does battle in the halls of Congress. "Know Your Power" "I'm mad enough to eat nails right now," Stevens said after the vote. Boxer's rebellion. (North America) After narrowly losing this vote, the senior senator, who chairs the committee that funds the zoo, said he was "mad enough to eat nails," which may or may not produce a quicker death than that suffered by two endangered red pandas that ate rat poison scattered about their National Zoo enclosure in January by cut-rate exterminators. Home fires burning: around the wartime capital. (Letter From Washington) He brushed aside characterisations of himself as a stubborn man who eats nails for breakfast, saying with a laugh: "All of these are exaggerations - I don't eat nails." But he added: "It's right - I am a man of principles." Poles apart - divided we stand; As Israel reaches its half century, Howard Goller looks at the couple w ho helped create it
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