Winkle pickers, named because they were so pointed you could dig up periwinkles with them, were a style of these
[DOC] [TLE] Thesaurus of Traditional English Metaphors.pdf [PAR] good metaphors have therefore been excluded because of this inevitable .... 
natural world around them, and in so doing they were giving metaphor its .... 
alphabetical order; if you forget a name or a word, to scratch your head and 
frantically to ..... screw him up Bring him to the point of concluding a bargain or 
agreement.