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dead fingers

British

noun

(functioning as singular) med a disease of users of pneumatic drills, characterized by anaesthesia of the fingertips and cyanosis

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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

With forced calmness, she broke the seal which the dead fingers had made so long ago, opened it shamelessly, and read it.

From Flower of the Dusk by Reed, Myrtle

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