英语词汇point the finger的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

词汇	point the finger
词源	point the finger. This expression is first recorded in Shake- speare’s Othello (1604): “To make me the fixed Figure for the time of Scorne to point his slow, and moving finger at.” It came to mean “to single out a guilty person” and ultimately gave us the expression finger man for a criminal who singles out a vic- tim for a murder, robbery, or other crime, and to finger, the act of singling out a victim for a crime.
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