American Idioms and Expressions

Put The Finger On Someone Idiom

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put the finger on (someone)
What does put the finger on (someone) mean?
to accuse someone of doing something, to identify someone as the one who did something The police put the finger on the young man as the main suspect for the crime.

put the finger on (someone)
What does put the finger on (someone) mean?
to accuse someone, to identify someone as the one who did something The woman put the finger on the young man and said that he took the DVD player.


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