not lift a finger
lift
noun[ C ]
us/lɪft/

liftnoun[C] (JOURNEY)

infml
a free trip in another person’s vehicle, esp. a car:
Can I give you a lift home?

liftnoun[C] (RAISE)

Br A lift is an elevator.

lift | Business English

lift
verb[ T ]
uk /lɪft/us
ECONOMICS, FINANCE
to make the amount or level of something rise:
Low interest rates may lift consumer confidence.
The group's shares were lifted 5.25p to 170p by the news.
Economists said that the cash probably helped lift the economy out of recession.
lift sales/prices/profits
to move something from a lower to a higher position:
They use a crane to lift the containers onto the ship.
GOVERNMENT, POLITICS
to end a rule or law:
Federal officials will lift an order grounding all small planes.
lift a ban/an embargo/sanctions
lift
noun[ C ]
uk /lɪft/us
[ usually singular ]
an increase:
a lift in sthLocal stores saw a lift in sales.
That gave the dollar a lift against the yen.
WORKPLACE UK(USelevator)
a device like a box that moves up and down, carrying people or goods from one floor of a building to another:
Visitors normally take the lift to the reception level one floor below.
in the liftI came up in the lift with the company Chairman.

Examples of lift

lift
He then lifted him onto his own mount and took him to an inn and looked after him.
The lift force is in a direction tending to increase e, and so in a pure liquid a vertical line of two bubbles is unstable.
All joints need to be lifted in a vertical direction where joints 2 and 3 need an extra motion to activate their unlocking mechanisms.
Climatic conditions and tropical montane forest productivity: the fog has not lifted yet.
In what follows we seek more precise information on the edge expansion of random lifts.
Progressives believed that dirt and disorder created chaos and made it difficult for citizens to lift themselves out of poverty.
With scalar-variable application defined, we can lift the application of a substitution to general types with no difficulty.
The finger symbols remained visible in the workspace while subjects lifted the coin and disappeared after the coin was replaced on the robot arm.
The object is lifted, transported to the right, and released.
As the attack angle increases, s1 and s2 move downstream and upstream respectively, thus increasing the lift.
These hairpins grow as they move downstream with their heads lifting away from the wall along a line inclined at 15-30 to the wall.
The idea is to have atomic actions in some monad that can be lifted into a concurrent setting.
Finally, (lift-abs) allows any expression to be lifted out of the body of an abstraction provided that a translation for that expression exists.
The solution adopted in the paper was to lift the domains and introduce a new bottom element (called 'lightning bolt').
This is not a limiting restriction as it is always possible to convert an arbitrary domain into a lattice by lifting: adding a bottom element.
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