"Can count on the fingers of one hand" nghĩa là gì?


"Can count on the fingers of one hand" = (hãn hữu) đếm trên đầu ngón tay -> nghĩa là điều hiếm khi xảy ra. 

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And you can’t “scratch the surface of American life without coming in contact (liên hệ) with” race, says the multiple Emmy winner. “I can count on the fingers of one hand the number of my films that are not about race.”

Stressing that in 27 years of practice, she can count on the fingers of one hand the number of people who have wanted to speed up the end to their lives, Margarida Alvarenga stressed that what concerned her much more was the fact that in Portugal right now not only is there ‘non-existent’ access to primary healthcare (because of the pandemic), there is also very limited access to palliative (tạm thời) care.

I hope you’ll listen to it, because you can count on the fingers of one hand the number of Vatican ‘experts’ prepared to do some digging that might embarrass (làm bẽ mặt) Pope Francis.

I can count on the fingers of one hand how many comets (sao chổi) we've had that have been this impressive. I mean, I have seen a lot of comets, but there's only a couple that have outshone (chiếu sáng) this in my entire lifetime.

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