finger-post

Meanings

nounfinger-post (plural finger-posts)

A signpost
A derogatory name for a clergyman
18th century Francis Grose, quoted in “Twenty-six words we don’t want to lose” “A parson: so called, because he points out a way to others which he never goes himself.”

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