133 - Common Similes with Liz (1-15)
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Are You as Sharp as a Tack?
Attack is when you have a bulletin board, you want to hang something up so that you can see it. Attack is that sort of small. It looks like a nail, honestly, but it's smaller, shorter, it's thinner so that it can puncture through a surface and sharp as a tack. I think everybody's reached into a desk drawer looking for a pen and pricks themselves on a tack that's in there. You forgot that it was in there. Right. Next, as hard or as tough as nails.
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