Sentences with phrase «pointed brass tacks»

This he continued until his hands and arms had become almost tremulous with the strain, and then he devised something else: two leather gloves; and he caused a brazier to fit them all over with sharp - pointed brass tacks, and he used to put them on at night, in order that if he should try while asleep to throw off the hair undergarment, or relieve himself from the gnawings of the vile insects, the tacks might then stick into his body.

Not exact matches

When it comes to the brass - tacks moment of actually facing your negotiating adversary, the advice tends to agree on a small number of practical, basic points.

I also buy Orin Kerr's point that professors often don't have enough of a feel for the sweet spot between airy - fairy dreaming and just brass - tacks doctrine.