a humorous
reference to the
fact that Chinese nobility grew their fingernails extremely long as a
symbol that they did not have to do
work with their hands.
a very long fingernail. In
reference to the
fact that Chinese nobility grew their fingernails extremely long as a
symbol that they did not have to do
work with their hands.
a very long fingernail. In
reference to the
fact that Chinese nobility grew their fingernails extremely long as a
symbol that they did not have to do
work with their hands. And then you take your little finger, which has a long, pointed, Chinese fingernail that you can actually
press very delicately, and you
press the exact combination.
-Sec Check Questions, Mutual Rudiments (20 June 61)