{"id":71907,"date":"2019-08-30T09:59:43","date_gmt":"2019-08-30T09:59:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/?p=71907"},"modified":"2019-08-30T09:59:43","modified_gmt":"2019-08-30T09:59:43","slug":"finger-idioms-idioms-derived-from-the-word-finger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/finger-idioms-idioms-derived-from-the-word-finger\/","title":{"rendered":"Finger Idioms | Idioms Derived From The Word Finger"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Idioms are common in all kinds of English, formal and informal, spoken and written. Here is a list of idioms derived from the word<strong> &#8216;finger&#8217;.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Burn one\u2019s fingers or get one\u2019s fingers burnt (suffer, often financially, as a result of foolish behaviour)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>He invested all his money in the stock market and got his fingers badly burnt.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Lay a finger on somebody (touch someone with the intention of causing harm)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>I will not let you lay a finger on that boy again.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Slip through someone\u2019s fingers (miss something especially an opportunity)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>This is your last chance of passing the exam. Don\u2019t let it slip through your fingers.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Work one\u2019s fingers to the bone (work very hard)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>You will have to work your fingers to the bone if you want to pass this time.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Have something at one\u2019s finger tips (know all the details of a subject thoroughly)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>He has all the details of the project at his fingertips.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Lift one\u2019s finger (make even the slightest effort)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>He didn\u2019t even lift a finger to stop the fight.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Keep one\u2019s fingers crossed (to hope for or against something)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Idioms are common in all kinds of English, formal and informal, spoken and written. Here is a list of idioms derived from the word &#8216;finger&#8217;. Burn one\u2019s fingers or get one\u2019s fingers burnt (suffer,&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[393,1019,1020],"class_list":["post-71907","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-vocabulary","tag-english-idioms","tag-finger-idioms","tag-idioms-with-fingers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71907","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=71907"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71907\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":71908,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71907\/revisions\/71908"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71907"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71907"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71907"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}