count on the fingers of one hand
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count on the fingers of one hand (third-person singular simple present counts on the fingers of one hand, present participle counting on the fingers of one hand, simple past and past participle counted on the fingers of one hand)
- (transitive, figurative) To count something small enough in number that one can do it using just the digits on one's hand.
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- “count something on the fingers of one hand”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
- “you can count something on the fingers of one hand” (US) / “you can count something on the fingers of one hand” (UK) in Macmillan English Dictionary.
- “could count sth on the fingers of one hand”, in Cambridge English Dictionary, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: Cambridge University Press, 1999–present.
- “someone can count something on the fingers of one hand”, in Collins English Dictionary.