haha, "when a dike is about 2break, a finger doesn't cut it"

"Dikes don’t typically leak—they weaken until whole sections are washed away. No finger will help when that happens.

So what is a hero supposed to do? You don’t use a finger, you use a boat."

- https://www.dutchgenealogy.nl/why-the-little-dutch-boy-never-put-his-finger-in-the-dike/