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Meanings of get a splinter in English

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Usage of get a splinter in English
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When you play with a hoop, be careful or you'll get a splinter in your finger.
The new yorker
2
Hope you don't get a splinter.
Shadow's son
3
Instead of having tablecloths, the tables were so rough you could get a splinter just running your hand over them.
Lonesome dove
4
But if I get a splinter and it turns septic and no one notices and I get gangrene and die, it will be your fault.
Past malice: an emma fielding mystery
5
He shifted uneasily on the built-in seat, and got a splinter in a vital spot.
Stairway to the Stars
6
Once he got a splinter in his hand, but such trifles meant nothing to him now.
The Neverending Story
7
When someone gets a splinter, he's the one who pulls out the hydrogen peroxide and tweezers.
Brave girl eating: a family's struggle with anorexia
8
Conway is understood to have picked up the infection at work after getting a splinter in his knee.
The Irish Times
9
I got a splinter!
Sister Mine
10
"Now you've got a splinter in your finger-servesyou right."
The Militants / Stories of Some Parsons, Soldiers, and Other Fig...
11
Romi got a splinter in her elbow! He tugged on his grandmother's sleeve, and she passed the baby to Dak and left.
I shot you babe
12
Some people got a splinter in their hearts, and that was dreadful, for then it began to turn into a lump of ice.
The Pink Fairy Book
13
" Getting a splinter through your eye and dying."
A Dance with Dragons
14
Some persons even got a splinter in their heart, and then it made one shudder, for their heart became like a lump of ice.
Andersen's Fairy Tales
15
We went at the toothpicks again; until Frosty got a splinter stuck between his teeth, and had a deuce of a time getting it out.
The Range Dwellers
16
He got a splinter of grey stone, and in a twinkling there were twenty miles, by breadth and height, of great grey rock behind them.
Celtic Fairy Tales
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