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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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Until then, you can pry the Fenix 7S from my cold, dead fingers.

From The Verge ● Feb. 16, 2022

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

Clutched in the dead fingers of his left hand was a yellow slip of paper.

From Hooded Detective, Volume III No. 2, January, 1942 by Various

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