Lift-a-finger Definition

verb

Used other than as an idiom: see lift,‎ finger.

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(idiomatic) To make minimal effort; to help as little as possible.

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Origin of Lift-a-finger

  • Compare 1769, Oxford Standard text, King James Bible, Matthew, xxiii, 4 — For they bind heavy burdens and grievous to be borne, and lay them on men's shoulders; but they themselves will not move them with one of their fingers.

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Lift-a-finger Sentence Examples

  • You won't have to lift a finger the whole time you're with us.

  • When the storm burst, he remained entrenched behind the barriers of his own disciplined empire; sovereigns truckling in a panic to insurgent democracies he would not lift a finger to help;' it was not till Francis Joseph of Austria in 1849 appealed to him in the name of autocracy, reasserting its rights, that he consented to intervene, and, true to the promise made at Miinchengratz in 1833, crushed the insurgent Hungarians and handed back their country as a free gift to the Habsburg king.

  • There's still one more way for sexy female celebrities to get perfect bodies without having to lift a finger.

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  • Two, all over body shapers can help you to look smaller without you having to accomplish a marathon session at the gym; many love the fact that they can lose inches without having to lift a finger.

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