He's probably going to cut off his own fingers and eat them.
They'd had to cut off his father's finger to get it after he was dead.
"The first thing you have to teach them is not to cut off their fingers."
After that, you had to cut off someone else's little finger.
"I'm the father of the baby whose finger you cut off."
There, he threatens to cut off his fingers to win her love.
Cutting off a man's fingers would be an odd way of getting him to do more work.
Cutting off one's finger to stop the attacks had even more.
Then, most of the people who could hold a hammer or run a press without cutting their fingers off went up north to get jobs.
He nearly cut off a relative's finger in the process, and then ran out of the way as the tree crashed down.