finger post

It is reached by a winding lane turning off the high-road, beside a finger-post and two ugly modern cottages.

He had called a woman a finger-post, and forthwith she had offered to come to him and be finger-post to him for life!

All that538 can be done is to serve as a finger-post to point the road along which there is work to be done.

We did not expect a dull, unsatisfactory guidebook—a mere finger-post folio—nor has the author produced such a commonplace volume.

It is a finger-post to show us whither the crooked paths of worldly ways will lead us.