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  • 工作学习 / English / Jabber's English Note---009 -jabber(jabber); 2001-7-16 {595} (#134105@0)
    Sorry, I have missed all of my friends for such a long time.

    During the past two weeks, I have been busy with finger-pointing. For the friends who are still in China, you can figure out what people mean by finger-pointing. When people finger-point at each other, they actually try to shake their responsibilities and pick up other's faults. Our company oursourced a project. Since it is already half-done, so it is time for me to finger-point our business partners...

    In the real life, it is quite a common phenomena to see Chinese couples finger-point in their families. Bet you not?
    • Thanks! Interesting. Maybe couples finger point, not only the Chinese :) Seems 'finger' has something to do with quite a few phrases such as finger cross...and finger itself is not a good one. It would be great if you -found(BeeGee); 2001-7-16 {77} (#134116@0)
      could share more 'finger' things and of course the beautiful English notes.
    • I still couldn’t figure out what exactly finger-pointing mean :-( I can guess the rough meaning of it by your posts, but I don’t think I can use it properly because I don’t know the tone and attitude of the speaker. -birdincage(birdincage); 2001-7-17 {64} (#134763@0)
      And, what is finger cross? I couldn’t find it in my dictionary.
      • keep one's fingers crossed 祝成功 finger cross means puting the middle finger on top of index finger. -chef(兰州拉面); 2001-7-18 (#136445@0)
        • Thanks :-) -birdincage(birdincage); 2001-7-18 (#136669@0)
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