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Idioms: our fingers - English lesson

expressions! It can be interesting and useful to know some of them. 

GET TO KNOW YOUR FINGERS! 

The names of our fingers: 

A FEW EXPRESSIONS TO REMEMBER: 

 To snap your fingers

To be finger's breadth: to be very close to someone or something

A Frenchman to the finger tips: a typical one

A finger biscuit ("Couldn't you make them ... a little longer?")

To point one's finger at: to show with a finger...

To prick one's finger: with a needle

To snap one's fingers

To shake/ wag/ one's finger at  (to shake, I shook, shaken): to threaten

To have butterfingers: to be very clumsy

Butterfingers!

- To count on one's fingers

- To count on the fingers of one hand

- He wouldn't lift/ stir a finger to help you

- To have a finger in the pie

- To keep one's fingers crossed

- To lay a finger on somebody

- To put two fingers up at somebody/ to give somebody the finger (US) ( that's very rude!)

- She twisted him round her little finger: she made him do all that she wanted...

- "Move a finger, and you're a dead man!" 

-  Money burns his fingers./ slips through his fingers

-  His fingers are all thumbs!

To have nimble fingers: agile fingers	Fingers in every pie: to meddle in everything
To have green fingers: ability to, grow plants	He never lifts a finger to...: he does nothing ...
Money slips through his fingers...	To get your fingers burnt (burn, I burnt, burnt)
He's all thumbs: very clumsy	He has a finger on the pulse... Stays informed
To lay a finger on: locate, discover, take...	To point a finger at...
To have sticky fingers: prone to stealing	To have a "five-finger discount": to steal items

You must admit that some of them are quite evocative... They'll be quite easy to remember! 

Go for the test, and thanks for working with me! 

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1. Lea is snapping her fingersall thumbsto her fingertipsI don't know and shouldn’t carry and touch these expensive glasses…



2. I’ve already met him… He's violent but don't worry... He won't lay a fingersnap his fingersprick his fingerI don't know on our group, I promise...



3. ' Stop that! prick a fingersnap a fingerPointing a fingerI don't know at somebody is very rude…'



4. He started sucking his butterfingersthumbfinger biscuitsI don't know from the age of three… It’s very bad for his teeth…



5. 'You shouldn’t leave him alone at your home… You have lots of precious objects and he’s said to have buttergingerssticky fingersfingers in the piesI don't know… Be careful…'



6. I certainly won’t lift a fingercount on my fingersprick my fingerI don't know to help her… she doesn’t deserve it…



7. 'As you’ve got him twisted around your fingercounting on his fingerssnapping his fingersI don't know, you can ask anything from him and he’ll do it…'



8. 'Jimmy, you’re old enough not to put your fingers upburn your fingerscount on your fingersI don't know. I’ll help you if you need it.'



9. 'When you’ve pricked your fingercounted on your fingerspointed your fingerI don't know, you weren’t careful enough and put blood all over your work.'



10. ' I’m so butterfingeredcrossing my fingerstwisted round his fingersI don't know today… I keep dropping things and breaking them.'