Meaning & use
nailing
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Fastening something with a nail, or, informally, doing something exactly right or successfully.
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He spent the afternoon nailing boards together to build the fence.
She's really nailing her presentations lately, impressing the whole team.
A note on using this word
The informal sense of 'nailing it,' meaning to succeed decisively, has become especially common in casual and workplace English since the late 20th century.
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