needle; pin; hook; stinger; thorn; hand (e.g. clock, etc.); pointer
porcupinefish (Diodon holacanthus); balloonfish
bed of nails; bed of thorns; bed of needles
needlework; sewing; seamstress
hedgehog (any mammal of family Erinaceidae)
hell's mountain of needles
to hurt someone's feelings
seam; stitch; eye of a needle
memorial service for old needles
leader; trace; cast; snell
cross my heart and hope to die, stick a needle in my eye; (lit.) pinky promise pledge: if you're lying, I'll make you drink a thousand needles
any horsehair worm of class Gordioidea; gordian worm (of class Gordioidea); hair worm (of class Gordioidea); wireworm (click beetle larva)
to have a narrow view of things; (lit.) to peek at the sky through the eye of a needle
black locust; robinia pseudoacacia
you can't always get what you want; man plans and God laughs; things don't always turn out the way you hope
Japanese halfbeak (Hemiramphus sajori); stickleback
Gasterosteus microcephalus (species of stickleback)
golden cuttlefish (Sepia esculenta); Madokai's cuttlefish (Sepia madokai)
exaggeration; making a mountain out of a molehill
a stitch in time saves nine; (lit.) one needle today, ten needles tomorrow
stinging words; biting remarks
wire frame representation
wireworks; wire manufacturing plant
to have a narrow view of things; (lit.) to peek at the sky through the eye of a needle
short-beaked echidna (Tachyglossidae spp.); spiny anteater
storehousebush (Cudrania tricuspidata); mandarin melon berry; silkworm thorn; cudrang
white-throated needletail (species of swift, Hirundapus caudacutus)
spiny amaranth (Amaranthus spinosus); spiny pigweed; prickly amaranth; thorny amaranth
Burmeister's porpoise (Phocoena spinipinnis)
pale cabbage (Brassica tournefortii); Asian mustard
castor aralia (Kalopanax septemlobus); prickly castor oil tree
tiger-tail spruce (Picea polita)