dead fingers
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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But you’d have to pry the manual out of my cold, dead fingers.
From New York Times • Oct. 1, 2021
Oh, I feel you—I love my apartment because it’s cheap and in a great part of town, and you will have to pry it out of my cold, dead fingers.
From Slate • Jun. 6, 2021
You’ll have to prise my cold dead fingers from this gig.
From The Guardian • Mar. 17, 2019
Recent surveys show that the automakers will have to pry the steering wheel from our cold, dead fingers before we let robots take over our roads.
From The Verge • Jul. 4, 2017
And also he saw, clutched in the stiff, dead fingers, the petition of his slaves who toiled in Hell's Bottom.
From When God Laughs: and other stories by London, Jack
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