squint like a bag of nails

squint like a bag of nails
To squint very much, as though ones eyes were directed as many ways as the points of a bag of nails.

[If you think] Im going to find a billet for a good-for-nothing unclassed bollox, youre mighty mistaken, said he, looking up at me for the first time, squinting like a bag of nails. This is a shipping office, not a refuge for stray dogs.


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