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long finger

noun

  1. put something on the long finger
    to postpone something for a long time
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Example Sentences

In this book, a crime and its city, haunted by the long finger of history, are too.

It was from the church over in the town,—the big white church with the long finger pointing at the sky.

He swung around to point a long finger at the fat man sitting there.

And when at length there was a movement in the house which told of the servants awakening, he pushed the bell with a long finger.

His long finger nails were buried in the yellow flesh of his palms.

Why, unless it is Davy Jones himself, tapping with his long finger-nails, a-telling us as how we've been too long already here.

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Longfellow, Henry WadsworthLongford