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Meanings of thumbtack in English
Synonyms
Examples for "tack"
Examples for "tack"
1
But others have been forced by current circumstances to change tack completely.
2
It marks a change of tack when dealing with the financial industry.
3
Wired: Gervais takes tack-sharp aim at all things absurd -including himself.
4
This time, some companies that had sold guns for years changed tack.
5
Mexico's national electricity company CFE will follow a similar tack, she added.
1
He drew his finger to the south to the pushpin at Tripoli.
2
A handy map view marks each station's locale with a pushpin.
3
He held the fourth pushpin in his hand, not sure where to put it.
4
He placed his finger on the red pushpin at Helsingør.
5
Plucking the pushpin, he quickly read the note:
1
Rosalie was in the study looking for a drawing pin wherewith to affix her illuminated card to the wall.
2
Alan Sugar's sidekick is to be the new Countdown host Age: 67 Appearance: retired newsreader, sitting on a drawing pin.
3
Please don't leave any drawing pins on the floor.
4
The only thing needed to complete this military operation is a set of colour-coded drawing pins.
5
Father presses the drawing pins on my Red Star poster more firmly into the wall with his thumbs.
1
By using a push pin and a print out of each constellation, she is able to give complete accuracy to these constellation cookies.
2
A little plastic box filled with Push Pins, rubber bands, thumbtacks, and paper clips.
3
The application displays push pins for each restaurant within that area and lists them below the map.
4
Various devices are used to keep the film straight, and push pins or thumb tacks are supplied with almost all of them.
5
This will allow the end of the film to be turned over at each end of the frame and fastened with push pins.
Usage of thumbtack in English
1
He removed a thumbtack with his nail and handed me a list.
2
A World Wildlife Fund calendar hung from a thumbtack on one wall.
3
The pale morning star was a white thumbtack on a blueboard behind them.
4
Sissy took out the thumbtack and turned the postcard over.
5
They said your dick looked like a thumbtack.
6
The paper had a thumbtack hole, and he suspected it had come from a bulletin board.
7
So I opened the door again, got out a piece of paper and a thumbtack, and wrote:
8
They looked messy with just one thumbtack.
9
Roger drew from his pocket a square of cardboard and affixed it to the board with a thumbtack.
10
She'd knot one end, fasten the other to a wall with a thumbtack, watch them try to fly.
11
When he was at last nestled upon his perch, he looked like an eggplant balanced atop a thumbtack.
12
A thumbtack of pain shot into my right calf, then my left, and a spot close to my groin.
13
Hang it with a thumbtack or bit of tape, or affix it in any other manner that seems right to you.
14
Here he posted, with a thumbtack, a piece of cardboard on which was written, in his Mediterranean handwriting the special order for the day:
15
There also are a number of subtler visual jokes, like Salman pulling a thumbtack out of his cereal -courtesy of his homicidal nephew.
16
He punched a thumbtack through the corner of my dollar, pulled a silver dollar out of the cash register, and wrapped my dollar around it.
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Thumbtack through the time