Screws are temporary, nails are permanent is how I see people rationale it.
If you screw something up it's bad, but if you nailed it it's good
Submitted 3 months ago by MurrayL@lemmy.world to showerthoughts@lemmy.world
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slazer2au@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Pat_Riot@lemmy.today 3 months ago
That’s tight
DarkMetatron@feddit.org 3 months ago
As an non-native speaker “nailed it” for me as good as only exists in his ironic or sarcastic incarnation. So both “screw up” and “nailed it” would be used in a negative way, but in a different context
TrickDacy@lemmy.world 3 months ago
As a native speaker, nailed it is not always sarcastic.
teft@piefed.social 3 months ago
E.g. “Did you see that shot he took from mid court? He fucking nailed it!”
squaresinger@lemmy.world 3 months ago
If you screw it down it’s pretty solid though.