| 单词 | to put the finger on |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto put the finger on (a person) (b) Originally and chiefly U.S. (originally Criminals' slang) to put the finger on (a person) and variants. extracted from fingern. (i) To identify (a person); esp. to identify or indicate as being guilty of or responsible for a crime, transgression, etc.; (also) to identify (an offender) to the police; to inform on or betray (a person). Also in extended use. Cf. finger v. 11b. ΘΚΠ society > communication > information > informing on or against > inform on or against [verb (transitive)] wrayc725 meldeOE bimeldena1300 forgabc1394 to blow up?a1400 outsay?a1400 detectc1449 denounce1485 ascry1523 inform1526 promote1550 peach1570 blow1575 impeach1617 wheedle1710 split1795 snitch1801 cheep1831 squeal1846 to put away1858 spot1864 report1869 squawk1872 nose1875 finger1877 ruck1884 to turn over1890 to gag on1891 shop1895 pool1907 run1909 peep1911 pot1911 copper1923 finger1929 rat1932 to blow the whistle on1934 grass1936 rat1969 to put in1975 turn1977 1877 Congress. Rec. 30 Nov. 776/2 They had no motive to put their finger on any one except the person whom they believed..was one of the guilty parties... Their highest motive was to point out the persons who were really guilty, with no temptation to put their finger on any one who was not. 1926 J. Black You can't Win vii. 84 If I'm grabbed with this junk I'll rot in jail before I put the finger on you. 1930 Detective Fiction Weekly 22 Mar. 742/2 ‘Who're you, turkey?’ ‘Louis Fieri knows me. Where is he; he'll put the finger on me.’ 1958 Washington Post & Times Herald 18 Dec. b10/1 Medical scientists here have put the finger on a Malayan jungle mosquito as a potent carrier of the foreign but dread Japanese encephalitis virus. 2002 G. P. Pelecanos Cleaning Up (TV shooting script) 12 in Wire (O.E.D. Archive) The boy put the finger on Omar's bitch down at the carryout. (ii) To identify and apprehend (a guilty party); to catch. Now rare. Cf. finger v. 5. ΚΠ 1883 T. N. Doutney His Life-struggle, Fall & Reformation xiii. 150 If they [sc. the police] want a rogue, they know just when and where to put the finger on him. 1930 Detective Fiction Weekly 22 Mar. 744/2 Pop Graimes will bust the town wide open and put the finger on Gann—break him wide open, send him for a long ride. 1937 F. C. Painton Way of Cop in Detective Fiction Weekly 6 Nov. 43/1 The kids..yelled, ‘Hi-yuh, Officer Bourke.’ Among themselves they whispered, ‘He's going to make a pinch. He's putting the finger on Boots Williams’. 1937 ‘J. Curtis’ You're in Racket, Too v. 61 I'll be round here like a lamp-lighter. Dive up here and put the finger on him with his pants down. (iii) To identify (a person) as a prospective target for a crime, assassination, etc. Cf. finger v. 11a. Now rare. ΚΠ 1924 G. C. Henderson Keys to Crookdom 414 A dip's stall puts his finger on a prospective victim. 1930 in Amer. Speech (1951) 26 155/2 Put a finger on, mark for killing. 1941 N.Y. Times 13 May 25/7 She was convicted of having ‘put the finger on’ Mrs. James V. Forrestal..the night the latter was robbed of jewelry worth $75,000. 1953 P. Adler House is not Home (2006) v. 174 Many suspected that I knew who had put the finger on Vivian, and it was believed that I was less afraid of being called in on the vice inquiry than of being questioned about the killing. < as lemmas |
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