"squint like a bag of nails" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1935, Georgette Heyer, Regency Buck, page 230",
          "text": "Does she squint like a bag of nails? Is she hideous? They always are!'\nThe Earl stood back.'You may judge for yourself,' he said dryly. 'Miss Taverner, little though he may have recommended himself to you, I must beg leave to present my brother, Captain Audley.'",
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          "ref": "2005, Mary Lancaster, An Endless Exile, page 21",
          "text": "In his own language, he called out, “Where is she then, Rob? Is she hideous? Does she squint like a bag of nails? Does she screech like a shrew with toothache?” This time, the silence was definitely appalled – not least, I suspected, because there was more than a grain of truth in Hereward's unflattering description.",
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        "To squint very much, as though one's eyes were directed as many ways as the points of a bag of nails."
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        "(idiomatic) To squint very much, as though one's eyes were directed as many ways as the points of a bag of nails."
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          "ref": "1935, Georgette Heyer, Regency Buck, page 230",
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        "To squint very much, as though one's eyes were directed as many ways as the points of a bag of nails."
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        "(idiomatic) To squint very much, as though one's eyes were directed as many ways as the points of a bag of nails."
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