squint like a bag of nails

== English == === Pronunciation === === Verb === squint like a bag of nails (third-person singular simple present squints like a bag of nails, present participle squinting like a bag of nails, simple past and past participle squinted like a bag of nails) (idiomatic) To squint very much, as though one's eyes were directed as many ways as the points of a bag of nails. === References === [Francis] Grose [et al.] (1811), “Squint like a bag of nails”, in Lexicon Balatronicum. A Dictionary of Buckish Slang, University Wit, and Pickpocket Eloquence. […], London: […] C. Chappell, […], →OCLC.