Nails
To see yourself hammering nails in your dream, signifies your tenacity and ability to drive a hard bargain. Consider also the pun, "getting nailed" which may mean getting caught at something or a sexual innuendo.
Another popular phrase "hitting the nail on the head" suggests that you have fully resolved a situation.
To see nails in your dream, symbolizes long and hard work for little compensation and pay.
To see bent, broken and rusty nails in your dream, indicates illness or failure in business.
To dream that you hurt yourself with a nail, denotes that you should be careful of what you say.
Dictionary definition
- n. 1: horny plate covering and protecting part of the dorsal surface of the digits
- 2: a thin pointed piece of metal that is hammered into materials as a fastener
- 3: a former unit of length for cloth equal to 1/16 of a yard
- v. 1: attach something somewhere by means of nails; "nail the board onto the wall"
- 2: take into custody; "the police nabbed the suspected criminals" [syn: collar, nail, apprehend, arrest, pick up, nab, cop]
- 3: hit hard; "He smashed a 3-run homer" [syn: smash, nail, boom, blast]
- 4: succeed in obtaining a position; "He nailed down a spot at Harvard" [syn: nail down, nail, peg]
- 5: succeed at easily; "She sailed through her exams"; "You will pass with flying colors"; "She nailed her astrophysics course" [syn: breeze through, ace, pass with flying colors, sweep through, sail through, nail]
- 6: locate exactly; "can you pinpoint the position of the enemy?"; "The chemists could not nail the identity of the chromosome" [syn: pinpoint, nail]
- 7: complete a pass [syn: complete, nail]