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nail

1. tv. to arrest someone. (see also nailed.) The cops nailed him right in his own doorway.

2. Go to coffin nail.

3. tv. to identify someone. The officer nailed Freddy, thanks to the description the victim provided.

See:

• a nail-biter
• another lie nailed to the counter
• another nail in (one's) coffin
• another nail in the coffin
• be (as) hard as nails
• be a bed of nails
• be as hard as nails
• be as tough as old boots
• bite nails
• bite one's nails
• can't nail (something) down
• cash on the nail
• coffin nail
• eat nails
• fight hammer and tongs
• fight tooth and claw
• fight tooth and nail
• final nail in the coffin
• for want of a nail
• For want of a nail the shoe was lost; for want of a shoe the horse ...
• go at each other tooth and nail
• go at one another tooth and nail
• hard as nails
• hit the bull's-eye
• hit the nail on the head
• if all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail
• like nailing jelly to the wall
• mad enough to chew nails
• mad enough to eat nails
• nail
• nail (one's) colors to the mast
• nail back
• nail colours to the mast
• nail down
• nail ears back
• nail in coffin
• nail in one's coffin
• nail in the coffin of
• nail into
• nail Jell-O to a cross
• nail Jell-O to a tree
• nail Jell-O to the wall
• nail onto
• nail polish on a hangnail
• nail someone to a cross
• nail someone to the wall
• nail someone‘s hide to the wall
• nail to a cross
• nail to the wall
• nail up
• nail-biting
• nailed
• nail-em-and-jail-em
• on the nail
• pay (someone) on the nail
• pin down
• spit nails
• squint like a bag of nails
• tooth and nail
• tough as nails