"Stick two fingers up at" nghĩa là gì?

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“Mersea is about 13 miles round so it seemed rude not to. I am thinking of it as an opportunity to stick two fingers up at coronavirus.

The logical thing for a smart president to do, rather than to stick two fingers up at Messi by forcing out Suarez and paying to terminate the remainder of his Barcelona contract, would be to swallow pride and keep the Uruguayan. If there were financial resources to bring in a young, quick, ready-to-go striker like Inter Milan's Lautaro Martinez then the argument would be different. But there aren't.

But I’m getting sick and tired of hearing about groups of people congregating (tụ tập, tập hợp) after closing hours at their pub, carrying on their jollies somewhere else, defying the 10pm curfew (lệnh giới nghiêm) rules. Why? So they can have one or two more drinks? So they can stick two fingers up at the government?

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