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单词 to hang long betwixt one's fingers
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> as lemmas

to hang long betwixt one's (also the) fingers
b. to hang long betwixt one's (also the) fingers: (of a matter, issue, etc.) to remain outstanding or in need of attention for a long time. Obsolete.
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a1616 R. Fenton Treat. Church Rome (1617) 139 If we dispatch it quickly, and neither leaue it for our executors to do, nor let it hang long betwixt our fingers.
1645 J. Howell Epistolæ Ho-elianæ v. xix. 24 I am one of them, who value not a curtesie that hangs long betwixt the fingers.
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