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nailing
(encz) | nailing,přibíjení n: Zdeněk Brož |
Nailing
(gcide) | Nail \Nail\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Nailed (n[=a]ld); p. pr. &
vb. n. Nailing.] [AS. naeglian. See Nail, n.]
1. To fasten with a nail or nails; to close up or secure by
means of nails; as, to nail boards to the beams.
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He is now dead, and nailed in his chest. --Chaucer.
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2. To stud or boss with nails, or as with nails.
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The rivets of your arms were nailed with gold.
--Dryden.
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3. To fasten, as with a nail; to bind or hold, as to a
bargain or to acquiescence in an argument or assertion;
hence, to catch; to trap.
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When they came to talk of places in town, you saw at
once how I nailed them. --Goldsmith.
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4. To spike, as a cannon. [Obs.] --Crabb.
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To nail an assertion or To nail a lie, etc., to detect
and expose it, so as to put a stop to its currency; -- an
expression probably derived from the former practice of
shopkeepers, who were accustomed to nail bad or
counterfeit pieces of money to the counter.
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nailing
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Unailing
(gcide) | Unailing \Unailing\
See ailing. |
like nailing jelly to a tree
(foldoc) | like nailing jelly to a tree
nailing jelly
Used to describe a task thought to be
impossible, especially one in which the difficulty arises from
poor specification or inherent slipperiness in the problem
domain. "Trying to display the "prettiest" arrangement of
nodes and arcs that diagrams a given graph is like nailing
jelly to a tree, because nobody's sure what "prettiest" means
algorithmically."
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nailing jelly
(foldoc) | like nailing jelly to a tree
nailing jelly
Used to describe a task thought to be
impossible, especially one in which the difficulty arises from
poor specification or inherent slipperiness in the problem
domain. "Trying to display the "prettiest" arrangement of
nodes and arcs that diagrams a given graph is like nailing
jelly to a tree, because nobody's sure what "prettiest" means
algorithmically."
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(1997-12-23)
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like nailing jelly to a tree
(jargon) | like nailing jelly to a tree
adj.
Used to describe a task thought to be impossible, esp. one in which the
difficulty arises from poor specification or inherent slipperiness in the
problem domain. “Trying to display the ‘prettiest’ arrangement of nodes and
arcs that diagrams a given graph is like nailing jelly to a tree, because
nobody's sure what ‘prettiest’ means algorithmically.”
Hacker use of this term may recall mainstream slang originated early in the
20th century by President Theodore Roosevelt. There is a legend that, weary
of inconclusive talks with Colombia over the right to dig a canal through
its then-province Panama, he remarked, “Negotiating with those pirates is
like trying to nail currant jelly to the wall.” Roosevelt's government
subsequently encouraged the anti-Colombian insurgency that created the
nation of Panama.
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nailing jelly
(jargon) | nailing jelly
vi.
See like nailing jelly to a tree.
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