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lifts a finger

vb. (en-third-person singularlift a finger)

Usage examples of "lifts a finger".

No one lifts a finger to stop this mad woman with her golf club as she hotfoots it down the aisle toward the vestibule.

Nobody lifts a finger to pull you out when you are drowning, unless there is something in it for him.

My fur coat hangs from the back of the trap, but I cannot reach it, and not one of my agile pack of patients lifts a finger.

Jack lifts a finger like a professor about to make a point or a bandleader about to deliver the downbeat.

My fur coat is hanging from the back of the gig, but I cannot reach it, and none of my limber pack of patients lifts a finger.