nail sth down
— phrasal verb with nail uk/neɪl/us/neɪl/verb
(DECISION)
informal If you nail down an arrangement or decision, you decide and agree to the details of it:
After a five-hour meeting, we finally nailed down a deal.
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Decisions and deciding
- be make or break for sb/sth idiom
- be on the horns of a dilemma idiom
- clinch
- clincher
- come down on one side of the fence or the other idiom
- come to sth
- decider
- fight
- hammer sth out
- head
- it's a date idiom
- judgment call
- lot
- make or break sth idiom
- make up your mind idiom
- mind
- name
- name the day idiom
- spin a coin idiom
- toss
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(UNDERSTAND)
US informal to understand something completely, or to describe something correctly:
We haven't been able to nail down the cause of the fire yet.
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Understanding and comprehending
- apprehend
- apprehension
- at your fingertips idiom
- attune
- bear in on/upon
- common
- fathom
- feel
- fingertip
- hit
- make sth/sb of sth/sb
- make sth/sb out
- mind
- picture
- plumb
- read between the lines idiom
- reading
- realization
- take sth in
- twig
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