English / idiom
Put Your Finger on It
MEANING IN ENGLISH
To identify or pinpoint precisely what is wrong, unique, or elusive about a situation.
In context
01
The folk music sounded different, but the ethnomusicologist could not quite put his finger on it at first.
02
You put your finger on it when you explained why modern youth long for ancestral storytelling traditions.
Synonyms
pinpoint,identify precisely,diagnose accurately
Antonyms
misunderstand,overlook,misdiagnose
Collocations
cannot put finger on it,finally put finger on it,able to put finger on it