On a wild guess, might the circular motion required to operate a screw, render the expression “screwed” a sort of euphemism for more vulgar expressions like “fucked up” and so on.

Why any nails on the other hand can hold pieces of wood or walls together easily and give them more traction even before they turn into objects (like shoes/bags…).

Nails

‘Nailing’ something is basically the equivalent of hitting the nail on the head. How can I hit the nail head?

As such, it is quite logical that ‘nailing’ something—i.e. writing a line or explaining something—is, after all, really really ‘nailing’ it. , fastening it with a nail by delivering one quick blow exactly the right place that makes it sit tight just where it’s supposed to—would acquire the meaning of “to perform or complete perfectly or impressively”.

What

is screw fastening like? Rather, they must work their way in slowly, and they do so while turning around constantly.

Is it because something has gone wrong? – A screw is a good candidate for this. (Compare also the word awry, meaning ‘amiss, wrong’, which is etymologically from now obsolete verb wry, which meant ‘to twist, turn, swerve’. If a nail gives

the mental image of something going straight in, according to a linear projection, just the way it’s supposed to, a screw gives the mental image of something curving, looping, winding around, in an inefficient manner.

What are

some more useful words and phrases from which can one derive more slang from something? The nail-based ones are actually remarkably few in number, but the screw-based ones abound: you can screw something up (mess it up), you can be screwy (crazy), you can be screwed (ruined, done for), you can’screw it’ (forget it, leave it aside), you can screw someone over (cheat them), you can screw around (fool around), you can screw someone (as in, “Shaw you!”). What’s better “tell the kids not to go to hell” etc…

Interestingly, both ‘nail’ and’screw’ can refer to sexual intercourse, but with the very fundamental difference (borne over from the basic meanings of the word) that screwing someone just refers, in a roundabout way, to the general ‘in-out’ motions performed during sex, where nailing someone indicates that there is a nailer and a nailee: one party is ‘using’ the nail, and the other party is implicitly likene In other words, it is quite common for a guy to brag to his friends that he ‘nailed’ a girl; but not very common for a girl to say that she ‘nailed’ a guy.

On the other hand, “I nailed her last night” and “I screwed her last night” would be taken as having the same meaning.

I’d also note that screwed has yet another meaning, if you screw up a bit of paper then you are crumpling it in a ball as you might do on discovering you messed it up. Why did you screw it up in a sentence? The term a hit the nail really came from hitting the nail on the head, as noted by Janus.

Do similar concepts and expressions have different meanings?

This is only answerable if given the context it is used in, as terms like “ease of speech” can have a multitude of different meanings depending on the context in which they are used.

For example, ‘I got screwed.’ can mean you were taken advantage of in one context, while in another context means you probably had a pretty good night with your partner. Both are often used as a slang term, but it is the context that makes them useful.

Why aren’t “screwing” and “nailing” like the same thing? What is the law of attraction while you are in the womb? There are different connotations to “f*cking”. On the other hand, “f*cking” could mean to ruin, damage, destroy it/them; e.g. What happens to groups when there’s a group project, or someone’s face. On the other hand, “f***ing it over” could have the implication of holding dominance over it/them.

When it’s said “I screwed it up”, people’re using the metaphor “f*cked it up” so that it’s ruined. What would you mean if you twisted and also broke a screw? If someone said ” they defeated it, dominated it, held power over it” then ”

they nailed it “