英语词汇“to put a finger to the wind”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

w. chiefly North American. to put (also hold) a finger to (also in) the wind and variants: (frequently of a politician) to take the appropriate measures to assess a situation, especially before taking action.Wetting a finger and holding up to the wind is a traditional method of testing wind direction.

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1932 Steubenville (Ohio) Herald-Star 8 July 6/2 If the individual manages his affairs astutely,..holding one finger up in the wind to keep himself informed about public opinion, he turns his title into money.

1949 Life 24 Oct. 102/2 A good machine politician..must constantly wet a finger to the wind.

1979 Washington Post (Nexis) 10 July (Final ed.) a1 The local politicians are holding fingers to the wind to see if the gasoline shortage is real and deciding whether they want to pay for more public transit.

1993 Ottawa Citizen (Nexis) 20 Mar. b1 Many establishment figures on Campbell's team ‘put their fingers in the wind and figured out who could win it for them’.

2002 D. Ebershoff Pasadena (2003) i. 9 Blackwood senses things turning his way, and that was what he had learned over the years: to keep a wet finger in the wind.

2009 Australian (Nexis) 6 May 20 Arocca suggested he was investigating an idea by ‘putting a finger to the wind’.

单词	to put a finger to the wind
释义	> as lemmas to put (also hold) a finger to (also in) the wind w. chiefly North American. to put (also hold) a finger to (also in) the wind and variants: (frequently of a politician) to take the appropriate measures to assess a situation, especially before taking action.Wetting a finger and holding up to the wind is a traditional method of testing wind direction. ΚΠ 1932 Steubenville (Ohio) Herald-Star 8 July 6/2 If the individual manages his affairs astutely,..holding one finger up in the wind to keep himself informed about public opinion, he turns his title into money. 1949 Life 24 Oct. 102/2 A good machine politician..must constantly wet a finger to the wind. 1979 Washington Post (Nexis) 10 July (Final ed.) a1 The local politicians are holding fingers to the wind to see if the gasoline shortage is real and deciding whether they want to pay for more public transit. 1993 Ottawa Citizen (Nexis) 20 Mar. b1 Many establishment figures on Campbell's team ‘put their fingers in the wind and figured out who could win it for them’. 2002 D. Ebershoff Pasadena (2003) i. 9 Blackwood senses things turning his way, and that was what he had learned over the years: to keep a wet finger in the wind. 2009 Australian (Nexis) 6 May 20 Arocca suggested he was investigating an idea by ‘putting a finger to the wind’. extracted from fingern. < as lemmas
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