ONTHENAIL

on the nail

Adverb

  1. immediately, without delay
    "Tell me, have you a mind to anything in the Doctor's book? Speak the word, and I will help you to it upon the nail." --Thomas Nashe, Have With You To Saffron Walden (1596)
    "You shall have ten thousand pounds on the nail." --Beaconsfield.


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