hangnail


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a loose narrow strip of skin near the base of a fingernail

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If Clay Buchholtz had a hangnail, he couldn't pitch.''
* There's the outrageous cost of malpractice insurance and litigation, because Harvey Garrard and thousands like him tell you, again and again and again, on TV, radio, billboards, to sue over a broken hangnail.
"I tell veterans that if you're in the service and you get so much as a hangnail, get that in your service record."
"Won't catch me getting in there." She pulls at a hangnail nearly bleeding on the edge of her thumb.
Y darn bach o groen annifyr sydd weithiau ar ochr eich gewin ydi o, 'hangnail' yn Saesneg.
Calling 911 over a hangnail. Cop puts the heart in a plastic bag.
He reported on what he knew, producing a comedy of perspective, or of self-interest, depending on how you think about it, a comedy summarized by Mel Brooks in his definition of theatre genres: "Tragedy is when I have a hangnail. Comedy is when you fall off a cliff and die."
I never seen so many alibis for a guy having a hangnail or something like that.
Enabled by a cottage industry of MDs offering discount scrips for just about anything worse than a hangnail, as many as 400,000 Californians now have carte blanche to get high.
He considers it more literary than legal, its basic message being to "pull the plug" if he has a hangnail. He argues that end-of-life directives will be worthless because doctors will wait to ask what we want until we are in intensive care with pneumonia (his example).
Getting rid of a notified body solely because of the auditor is a little like cutting a finger off to get rid of a hangnail. Take note: For the appropriate reasons (not just because he of she is cantankerous), a manufacturer can request an auditor be removed.
THIS book is about the good witches of Wadingburn and a bad one called Truda Hangnail. She is so evil that she has been banned from the Five Kingdoms, but is now back in town to cause trouble.