can be counted on one’s fingers—very few; not many; scanty ? 不！ 我還是要干下去的！ 中國民族工業(yè)就只剩下～的幾項(xiàng)了。(茅盾《子夜》65) No!I must carry on! There are not many of China’s national industries left:you can count them,on the fingers of one hand…
屈指可數(shù)
can be counted on one’s figures; be rare;very few 他的日子已經(jīng)～了。His days are numbered./像他那樣的專家真是～的。Experts like him are indeed very rare.
屈指可數(shù)qū zhǐ kě shǔ
扳著手指頭就能數(shù)得清。形容非常少，寥寥無幾。very few, hardly a handful, only a few to count