lift a finger

1. see not life a finger.

Example Sentences

“My goal was to flip that script to reverse the Dean Wormer effect . . . and now it’s happening: the big flip. We’re having fun — they aren’t. It’s driving them crazy, and we really didn’t have to lift a finger. And when we do … it’s always the middle one.”

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But the Mayor, Ekrem Imamoglu, could not lift a finger to help the city he was first elected to run in 2019.

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Despite court orders, the administration refuses to lift a finger to right that grievous wrong.

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There were several people who did not lift a finger and blew off their work shifts, forcing other campers to step up and keep things running.

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Like after I’ve done my own mani — for hours, I can hardly lift a finger without fear of effing something up.

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