To drive nails shows you will complete a deal and ‘drive’ a hard bargain.
If you injury yourself with a nail you should be careful of careless talk and sharp words. Additionally nails may have some sexual connotations.
A man may be expressing some repressed anxiety about sexual potency and a woman may be expressing her unconscious abhorrence of sex. [1]
A nail is the element that is introduced into an environment in such a way as to join disparate segments together, and herein lies its symbolic meaning. To see or use nails in a dream is to have access to that which will keep the thing you are building together in strength and integrity.
The thing you are building represents a new idea in consciousness, and the nails ensure that it will take proper form. [2]
A man may be expressing some repressed anxiety about sexual potency while a woman may be expressing her unconscious abhorrence of sex. [3]
To deal in nails, shows that you will engage in honorable work, even if it be lowly.
To see rusty or broken nails, indicates sickness and failure in business. [6]
2. Words that are stick in the memory;
3. Something that is permanent;
4. Unmovable;
Ez. 12:11; Is. 22:20-25; 41:1-7; Col. 2:14; Jer. 10:4; 1 Chron. 22:3; Eccles. 12:11. [7]
biting down to the quick: are brought to the limit by disparaging remarks about you.
breaking own: misery and affliction, briefly; things wil go back to normal.
buying: your reputation for being high-strung and irritable is not in dispute.
carpenter: have laborious duties to continue; don’t make it harder than it is.
copper: sorrow with your preoccupations; step out of them for a while.
horseshoe: wil be worried by bad news, which you wil turn around.
iron: solution wil be found by solid, heavy-duty research.
steel: the solution wil be uncovered in a pinhole and solved with a rivet.
children’s, growing: you, or someone dear to you, wil have an accident.
cutting own: an accident for a man; a quarrel for a woman.
others: dishonor in the family; unusual associations prove disastrous.
extra long, woman’s: big profits do not come from smal minds.
false fingernails, using: your mistakes increasingly occur due to lack of concentration.
hammering, in wall: the truth wil out; tel it first.
hangnail, having a: prompt attention must be paid to the tiniest detail.
of own finger: to continue your abundance, stay frugal.
others’: a high achievement for a woman to protect the tender parts of herself.
people chewing: wil be shunned by the higher class for perceiving yourself as lower class.
pulling, out: your extreme sensibility makes your actions careful.
selling: your concise analysis wil tie loose ends to a solution you can share.
tearing off another’s: a sadistic approach exposes a domestic bliss.
toenails, biting your: are about to be exposed for abetting a crime.
very short, having: have not established your own opinions or point of view. [9]
If the length of one’s fingernails reaches near breaking in a dream, it means losing to others what otherwise could remain under one’s own control, or it could denote the need to pay alms tax or to distribute charity. Seeing one’s fingernails broken or chipped in a dream means loss of money, status or health.
If one’s fingernails become claws in a dream, it means that he will triumph over his enemy.