not put your finger on

Meaning

1. not put your finger on sth

   to not be able to identify what is wrong or different about a particular situation

   There was something odd about him but I couldn't put my finger on it.

In the movies · 13

• Put your fingers right there, there and there.Unleashed2005
• Put your fingers inside the incision.Old2021
• Didn't even put your finger on the trigger.Unforgiven1992
• Put your fingers where? Ha-ha-ha!The Craft1996
• They'll bite you if you put your fingers down their mouths.Moonrise Kingdom2012
• Some Barry White, candles around the bath and put your finger in the missus.The Gentlemen2020
• Put your fingers in a dyke?Scarface1983
• Could you put your finger here for a second?Arizona Dream1993

Learn it in full scenes

• The Gentlemen2020
  • Fletcher Pitches His Story to Ray
  • Mickey and Matthew's Dinner Standoff
  • Mickey Pitches His Weed Empire

From the same entry

• the finger of suspicion
• get, pull, your finger out
• give the finger
• have a finger in every pie
• have, your fingers in the till
• have your finger on the pulse
• lay a finger on
• put two fingers up at
• work your fingers to the bone
• burn your fingers
• be able to count on one hand
• cross your fingers