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单词 to leave one's fingerprints all over something
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to leave one's fingerprints all over something
to leave one's fingerprints all over something: to leave distinct or indisputable evidence of one's involvement in an affair, endeavour, etc. Similarly to have fingerprints all over something, one's fingerprints are all over something, etc. In quot. 1932 more generally: to leave clues that reveal the truth of a story.
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1932 Taylor (Texas) Daily Press 7 Mar. 2/5 [Men]..do, however, leave little fingerprints all over their story, telltale marks by which a clever woman can always identify the parties concerned.
1957 C. Hilton Be my Guest i. 4 The town of Socorro still has family fingerprints all over it.
1977 N.Y. Times 18 Apr. 43/2 Mr. Carey heightened that risk when he left his fingerprints all over the Cuomo candidacy.
1997 K. Calavita et al. Big Money Crime (1999) iv. 126 It is no wonder that the legislation passed so quietly; as we have seen, politicians had left their fingerprints all over the S&L fiasco.
2009 Times 5 Feb. (Times2 section) 14 Lasseter's fingerprints are all over this slick animation that cleverly recycles his best trick.
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