put your finger on something Idiom, Proverb

about to do something

on the point of doing something She was about to leave when the phone rang.

bail someone or something out

help or rescue The government has decided to bail out the troubled bank.

be fed up with (with someone or something)

be out of patience (with someone

bend over backwards to do something

try very hard If I can, I will bend over backwards to help you get a promotion in the company.

blow it (something)

fail at something I tried hard but I am sure that I blew the final math exam last week.

bring home the importance of something to someone

make someone fully realize something He was unable to bring home the importance of arriving early for the meeting.

bring something on

cause to develop rapidly I don

brush up on something

review something one has already learned I

can't make heads or tails of something

" can't understand something at all;"

dead set against something

determined not to do something They are dead set against their son going to Europe for a year.

put (one's) feel on (something)

1. To admit or anamnesis fully, clearly, or correctly. (Usually acclimated in the negative.) I can't put my feel on what this is reminding me of. There's article off about her story, but I can't put my feel on it.2. To recognize, identify, or actuate the axiological aspects of something. Well, I anticipate you put your feel on it back you brought up the affair of tax increases for lower earners.Learn more: finger, on, put

put your feel on something

COMMON If you put your finger on the acumen for article or the accuracy about something, you say what it is exactly. He put his feel on a above weakness of its apprenticeship action back he said that the country bare bigger education, not abiding experimentation. It was Dr. Stockton who had put his feel on the truth. Note: If you cannot say absolutely the acumen for article or the accuracy about something, you can say that you can't put your finger on it. Had they accepted anniversary added as children? At school? She couldn't put her feel on it.Learn more: finger, on, put, something

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