crafted from Nintendium
- idiom
- Slang
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indestructible
- This old phone feels like it was crafted from Nintendium—it survived dozens of falls without a scratch.
Examples
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When I dropped my laptop and it barely had a dent, my friends said it must be crafted from Nintendium.
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Their new controller is so sturdy, people joke it's crafted from Nintendium.
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This controller is crafted from Nintendium!
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My new gaming chair feels like it was crafted from Nintendium.
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Their new controller is so sturdy, people joke it's crafted from Nintendium.
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This old phone feels like it was crafted from Nintendium—it survived dozens of falls without a scratch.
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When I dropped my laptop and it barely had a dent, my friends said it must be crafted from Nintendium.
Synonyms
34
5.3
Very hard to break or damage
25
2.7
Very strong and hard to damage in normal use
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6.7
Hard and not easily bent or broken by force
Extremely strong and not able to be broken
Made from a made-up metal that is very strong and absorbs energy
With a hard outer surface and a softer inner core to make it stronger
How Durable
Surface Forms
Morphology
The construction 'crafted from [material]' is transparently compositional—knowing 'craft' and 'from' lets a learner infer something is made of a substance. However, 'Nintendium' is a nonce blend (Nintendo + -ium) that relies on brand/cultural knowledge and the creative metal-like suffix; that inference is not guaranteed for an average B1 learner. Because part of the meaning is clearly derivable (made of a material) but the specific ironic/brand-based sense is unpredictable, the expression is best classified as semi-transparent.
Etymology
The phrase crafted from Nintendium imagines an object made from a made-up super-strong metal called Nintendium, a joke about how tough some Nintendo devices are. So it means 'very strong' or 'built to last'.