Watch out for 'the rude finger'

   My daughters Lucy [10] and Ellie [7] have a lot of fun playing in our fenceless front yard on a street with moderate through traffic as a crossover in our suburb. They climb bottlebrush trees, play hide and seek, tips etc

   From time to time they've run a lemonade and/or craft stall and whatever they're doing they pause and run together to the driveway and wave at passing traffic. One day some friendly local girls gave the gathered throng 'the bird' with a one middle fingered salute. This became known as a 'rude finger.'

   Now it's entered our common language as something is described as being:

as long as...

about as wide as...

as naughty as...

as obvious as...

'a rude finger'!! Thanks those girls in the Nissan X-Trail!!