Meanings of thumb-tack in English

It may be necessary to fasten it down with a thumb-tack.]

You only attach bits of paper to it with pins or thumb-tacks.

It's like fixing the mast to a boat with thumb-tacks: it won't hold.

The OTR community noticeboard is waiting for your thumb-tacks.

I unfolded it and showed it to Kitty, and then fixed it on the tree with thumb-tacks.

He lays the portfolio on the table, takes out the sketch and fastens it to the table with thumb-tacks.

He was staring at an unframed Charlie Russell print thumb-tacked to the wall, fly-spotted and stained, the edges curling.

In the work shed behind his house, the man thumb-tacked the image of a naked woman to the plywood wall.

Home support at World Cups may be worth a fabled extra man, but Brazil's may yet bring with him a banana skin or some thumb-tacks.

One enthusiastic children's librarian wrote me recently that her new "burlap walls, admitting any number of thumb-tacks" were the delight of her heart.