Meanings
verbpoint fingers (third-person singular simple present points fingers, present participle pointing fingers, simple past and past participle pointed fingers)
present singular third person points fingers · participle present pointing fingers · participle past pointed fingers · past pointed fingers
- idiomaticTo 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
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