put one's finger on

Just the hard-on before you shoot unarmed members of the public.

Practise gliding in the form of inflection, or slide, from one extreme of pitch to another.

He alludes to it as one of their evil customs and used by them to produce insensibility.

There was a rumor that Alessandro and his father had both died; but no one knew anything certainly.

He was voluble in his declarations that they would “put the screws” to Ollie on the charge of perjury.

Truth is a torch, but one of enormous size; so that we slink past it in rather a blinking fashion for fear it should burn us.