Nail
Nail verb - To deliver a blow to (someone or something) usually in a strong vigorous manner.
Remark
Remark verb - To make a statement of one's opinion.
How words are described
| exact | exact nail | exact remark |
| single | single nail | single remark |
| stupid | stupid nail | stupid remark |
| bad | bad nail | bad remark |
| Other adjectives: last. | ||
Common collocations
Both words in one sentence
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If he does so, a cut-scene will play in which she stabs him in the neck with her nail file after making a remark.
Source: Video Game / Hitman: Blood Money - Rocko's attempt at hiding his nail-biting habit using a ham and a monkey puppet leads him to remark, "Everybody's got something to hide, except for meat and my monkey."
Source: Waxing Lyrical -
In Episode 327 of The Order of the Stick, this is the Test of the Mind the Order goes through to get to the Oracle of Sunken Valley (which prompts Roy to remark "that's the last nail in the coffin for the hope that these Tests would be even remotely original").
Source: Knights and Knaves
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