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Examples
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Yet, their prime minister announces this dastardly, despicable deed with a single-finger salute as if he'd just delivered his people from slavery.
Michael Farr: Outrageous Arrogance and Greek Fraud Michael Farr 2011
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Might this be the moment that theater finally succeeds in reversing Churchill's "V for victory" hand gesture, rudely flicking it back at the great man in the British equivalent of the American single-finger salute?
True, or False? Graham Stewart 2012
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Yet, their prime minister announces this dastardly, despicable deed with a single-finger salute as if he'd just delivered his people from slavery.
Michael Farr: Outrageous Arrogance and Greek Fraud Michael Farr 2011
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A British expatriate in Dubai is facing jail and deportation after being accused of making a single-finger gesture in an argument.
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A British expatriate in Dubai is facing jail and deportation after being accused of making a single-finger gesture in an argument.
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When the event was over and we got on the press bus to the airport, some of McCain's supporters gave us a single-finger salute.
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When O'Reilly turned he got a single-finger salute.
Secret Service agents told Bill O 'Reilly to calm down and get behind a barricade. Ann Althouse 2008
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Between these two parties were several lanes of sluggish rush-hour traffic, which is probably the only thing that prevented bloodshed, as the Seahawks fans were overcompensating for their somewhat girlie team colors (well, relative to black-and-silver Raiders, anyway) by casting single-finger salutes and chants of their own across the busy thoroughfare:
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Somewhat wordier than the single-finger constitution, but the spirit's still there.
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He admitted that just like us he watches the show, loves driving fast and that his single-finger salute shouldn't be mistaken for arrogance or over-confidence . . . the perfect champion.
Evening Standard - Home Jake Humphrey 2011
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