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point the finger at
Idioms and Phrases
Attach blame to, accuse, as in When they asked her who broke the window, she pointed the finger at Tom . Also see put the finger on .Example Sentences
"When the computer makes a decision, you have no one to point the finger at. It's more of a guess. I don't know how the linesman makes a conclusive decision."
As scores of hydrants went dry while fire crews battled flames in Pacific Palisades, the president-elect instinctively went on social media to point the finger at his left coast political adversary, the Democrat he tastelessly derides as Gov. “Newscum.â€
The Post Office's former boss Paula Vennells has told the final day of an inquiry into the Horizon IT scandal that her senior team failed to inform her of key information but said "she has no desire to point the finger at others".
You cannot point the finger at any England player, but perhaps as a whole they were backing off and not wanting to give away a penalty.
The scientists chose not to name individuals, making clear they did not wish to point the finger at any one person.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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