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单词 point the bone at
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point the bone at

Australian
1(Of an Aborigine) cast a spell on (someone) so as to cause their sickness or death.These statements suggest that the government and its key advisers may not yet be pointing the bone at root source of the problem....
  • A native shepherd was murdered as he was suspected of having pointed the bone at the man who had stolen his Lubra’.
  • He was successful in stopping their practice of ‘bone-pointing’ by allowing them to point the bone at him.
1.1Openly accuse or blame someone.
From an Australian Aboriginal ritual, in which a bone is pointed at a victim
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