Significados de thumbtack en inglés

He removed a thumbtack with his nail and handed me a list.

A World Wildlife Fund calendar hung from a thumbtack on one wall.

The pale morning star was a white thumbtack on a blueboard behind them.

Sissy took out the thumbtack and turned the postcard over.

They said your dick looked like a thumbtack.

The paper had a thumbtack hole, and he suspected it had come from a bulletin board.

So I opened the door again, got out a piece of paper and a thumbtack, and wrote:

They looked messy with just one thumbtack.

Roger drew from his pocket a square of cardboard and affixed it to the board with a thumbtack.

She'd knot one end, fasten the other to a wall with a thumbtack, watch them try to fly.

When he was at last nestled upon his perch, he looked like an eggplant balanced atop a thumbtack.

A thumbtack of pain shot into my right calf, then my left, and a spot close to my groin.

Hang it with a thumbtack or bit of tape, or affix it in any other manner that seems right to you.

Here he posted, with a thumbtack, a piece of cardboard on which was written, in his Mediterranean handwriting the special order for the day:

There also are a number of subtler visual jokes, like Salman pulling a thumbtack out of his cereal -courtesy of his homicidal nephew.

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.