Massu said he could not put his finger on what wrong for him in the final.
"I just put my finger on a map, and it landed on Nebraska, " Borakove said.
"I've been trying to put my finger on it for 30 years, " says Wittmann, sounding genuinely bewildered.
England lack something in one-day cricket I can't quite put my finger on.
You put your finger on the two things that can cause failure here.
It had happened gradually, with nothing you could really put your finger on.
Right or not, Ms Matsui has put her finger on the right questions.
And for a reason they seem unable to quite put their finger on.
Warren Buffett once put his finger on what's stupid about buying a stock and then putting in a stop-loss order.
What Rose had put her finger on, by trial and error, was one of the great shortcomings of formal higher education.
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It's hard to put your finger on why we are not scoring.
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She smiles at me as she passes, and I feel immediately sad for no reason that I can put my finger on.
But his positioning was Wellensesque, managing to both force the pass and crucially put a finger on it to deny a try.
Which is you know it's, it's, and it, and there the RUSI Report I think you know does put its finger on something.
What they do is to put their finger on two or three things that they think are rather important about our current situation.
It is hard to put a finger on where the toughest competition to Hong Kong's status as a financial hub will come from.
The only thing anyone I talk to can put a finger on as a detraction is that he puts his foot in his mouth.
Among the evidence that the government could hear would be hours of wiretaps that, most likely, put the finger on Raj and his hot stock tips.
" Adds Harvard School of Public Health epidemiologist Walter Willett: "It is hard to put a finger on a specific food that prevents cancer in general.
Back in 1998 Bernard Arnault, then and now the CEO of LVMH, put his finger on a peculiar cultural phenomena of our time: Let's call it hyper-affluence syndrome.
It's hard to put a finger on our biggest complaint, but the fact that the navigation bar atop the browser isn't locked in place seems to be our largest frustration.
The way in which we get poorer is by rising prices such as those for gasoline, and a broad economic deterioration which is quite difficult to put your finger on exactly.
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Another method is to put one finger on your upper eyelid in the spot where you feel the top of the lens and the thumb on the lower eyelid over the bottom corner of the lens.
"The most positive legacy that Chavez has is that he put his finger on a legitimate grievance that many Venezuelans have: social injustice, " said Michael Shifter, president of the Inter-American Dialogue, a research and policy center in Washington.
However, like the others in this prolific writing team - colourist Jamie Grant and story writer Grant Morrison - he is unwilling to put his finger on just what it is about their output which holds such appeal for US comic book readers.
In their letter to President Sarkozy, laying down the priorities for the Cannes G20 Summit, David Cameron and five other heads of state put their finger on the problem: they said that confidence of citizens, businesses and markets had been damaged by a "lack of visible political will".
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