Sentence examples of "Nägel" in German
Ich kann mir nicht gleichzeitig die Nägel schneiden und bügeln!
I can't cut my nails and do the ironing at the same time!
Nagellack ist nutzlos: es schaut sowieso niemand auf die Nägel.
Nail polish is useless: no one looks at nails anyway.
Mit einem Hammer und Nägel in der Hand, steuerte sie gerade hier her.
With a hammer and nails in her hand, she headed straight here.
Für den, der nur einen Hammer im Werkzeugkasten hat, sieht jedes Problem wie ein Nagel aus.
To the man who only has a hammer in the toolkit, every problem looks like a nail.
Als Plato einen Menschen als zweibeiniges Tier ohne Federn definiert hatte, rupfte Diogenes einen Hahn, brachte ihn in die Akademie und sagte „Das ist Platos Mensch,“, weswegen dieser Zusatz zur Definition hinzugefügt wurde: „Mit breiten, flachen Nägeln.“
Plato having defined man to be a two-legged animal without feathers, Diogenes plucked a cock and brought it into the Academy, and said, "This is Plato’s man." On which account this addition was made to the definition,—"With broad flat nails."
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