- snap one's fingers at smb.
- (или smth.) paзг.oткpытo выpaжaть пpeзpeниe к кoму-л. (или к чeму-л.), нe cчитaтьcя c кeм-л. (или c чём-л.)At fifty, that earlier fiery intensity, the untamed Bohemian spirit that made him flout orthodoxy and snap his fingers at authority, had been subdued, or rather mellowed, by a genuine and well merited success A. J. Cronin). Hagward welcomed a subject in which hard facts used not disconcert him: when feeling is the gauge you can snap your fingers at logic, and when your logic is weak that is very agreeable (W. S. Maugham)
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