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point fingers

point fingers verb: to accuse people of being responsible for something bad.

Verb

point fingers (third-person singular simple present points fingers, present participle pointing fingers, simple past and past participle pointed fingers)

  1. (idiomatic) To accuse people of being responsible for something bad.
    • If Burnham is right, then it seems to me that the reaction of TfN, NR and DfT to questions is for each to point fingers at the others.2021 May 5, Philip Haigh, “I think we need better than this from the rail industry”, in RAIL, number 930, pages 50–51

Forms of point fingers

third-person singular presentpoints fingers
present participlepointing fingers
past participlepointed fingers
pastpointed fingers

Questions about point fingers

What does point fingers mean?
Point fingers means to accuse people of being responsible for something bad.
What part of speech is point fingers?
Point fingers is a verb.
What is the past tense of point fingers?
The past tense of point fingers is pointed fingers.

Words near point fingers in the dictionary

  1. point duties
  2. point duty
  3. Point Edward
  4. point elasticities
  5. point elasticity
  6. point fingers
  7. point form
  8. Point Fortin
  9. Point Frederick
  10. point function
  11. point functions

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