"put the finger on" meaning in English

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "puts the finger on",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "putting the finger on",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "put the finger on",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "put the finger on",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "<,,put>"
      },
      "expansion": "put the finger on (third-person singular simple present puts the finger on, present participle putting the finger on, simple past and past participle put the finger on)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
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      "examples": [
        {
          "bold_text_offsets": [
            [
              132,
              149
            ]
          ],
          "ref": "1954, Ian Fleming, “True or False?”, in Live and Let Die, London: Pan Books, published 1957, page 0:",
          "text": "\"And for God's sake watch out. And I mean it. The Big Man'll get you if he possibly can and a police escort to the train would only put the finger on you. Take a cab and keep out of sight.\"",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Synonym of finger (“to report to or identify for the authorities; to inform on”)"
      ],
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      "links": [
        [
          "finger",
          "finger#English"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(idiomatic) Synonym of finger (“to report to or identify for the authorities; to inform on”)"
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "extra": "to report to or identify for the authorities; to inform on",
          "tags": [
            "synonym",
            "synonym-of"
          ],
          "word": "finger"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "idiomatic"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "put the finger on"
}

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "puts the finger on",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "putting the finger on",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "put the finger on",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "put the finger on",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "<,,put>"
      },
      "expansion": "put the finger on (third-person singular simple present puts the finger on, present participle putting the finger on, simple past and past participle put the finger on)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
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        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English idioms",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
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        "Pages with entries",
        "Quotation templates to be cleaned"
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              132,
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          ],
          "ref": "1954, Ian Fleming, “True or False?”, in Live and Let Die, London: Pan Books, published 1957, page 0:",
          "text": "\"And for God's sake watch out. And I mean it. The Big Man'll get you if he possibly can and a police escort to the train would only put the finger on you. Take a cab and keep out of sight.\"",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Synonym of finger (“to report to or identify for the authorities; to inform on”)"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "finger",
          "finger#English"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(idiomatic) Synonym of finger (“to report to or identify for the authorities; to inform on”)"
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "extra": "to report to or identify for the authorities; to inform on",
          "tags": [
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          "word": "finger"
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      ],
      "tags": [
        "idiomatic"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "put the finger on"
}