Meaning of nail-cutter | Babel Free

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“C. Sigourney & H. C. Porter, […] offer for sale Twenty-five Cases of Ibbotsons’ and Sandersons’ justly esteemed CAST STEEL, a considerable part of which is of suitable draft, and tempered expressly for axes, and some few cases are of a superior quality, highly Carbonized, and calculated for Turning Tools, Nail-Cutters, Cold Chissels, Granite Hammers, and other purposes requiring great hardness, and tenacity.”

“Before repatriation was halted earlier this year, Lao Teng had given up hope for a life free from a threat of persecution in Laos. In an act of desperation, he stabbed himself in the stomach with a four-inch nail-cutter and jammed in a fountain pen. “I would rather die here than go back,” he said.”

“He called the former Ontario cabinet minister’s prescription for the city’s problems, “a bit like cutting your lawn with a nail-cutter”—ineffective and inconsequential.”

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