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n. Small, usually curved scissors used for cutting fingernails, and toenails.
Usage examples of "nail scissors".
Pissing stallions stand for eternities with arched back on two legs in pants, forming a roof over their excrescences with right hands, mostly married, prop their hips with their left hands, look ahead with mournful eyes, and decipher inscriptions, dedications, confessions, prayers, outcries, rhymes, and names, scribbled in blue pencil scratched with nail scissors, leather punch, or nail.
She also carried a very small pair of nail scissors, independent of the kit, the points of the scissors being less than a quarter inch.
Then the intruder pissed and shat on the cover of the Bordens' bed, knocked the clutter of this and that on the dresser to the floor, smashing everything, swept into Old Borden's dressing room there to maliciously assault the funeral coat as it hung in the moth-balled dark of his closet with the self-same nail scissors that had been used on the safe (the nail scissors now split in two and were abandoned on the closet floor), retired to the kitchen, smashed the flour crock and the treacle crock, and then scrawled an obscenity or two on the parlour window with the cake of soap that lived beside the scullery sink.
I'd snipped it off six months before with a trusty little pair of nail scissors, but I hadn't done much to it since.
I read my book, napped, and trimmed my hair with my trusty pair of nail scissors.
There was a colonial church just across the street, with a gilded clock, and a neat village green which looked as if it had been trimmed with nail scissors.