thumb

Related to thumb: Trigger thumb
See:
  • a pricking in (one's) thumbs
  • a pricking in your thumbs
  • a rule of thumb
  • all thumbs
  • all thumbs, to be
  • be all fingers and thumbs
  • be all thumbs
  • be twiddling (one's) thumbs
  • be twiddling your thumbs
  • bite (one's) thumb at
  • brown thumb
  • give (something) the thumbs down
  • give (something) the thumbs up
  • give something the thumbs down
  • give something the thumbs up
  • green thumb
  • green-thumbed
  • have (someone) under (one's) thumb
  • have a green thumb
  • hitch a lift
  • hitch a ride
  • hold (one's) thumbs
  • hold thumbs
  • hold your thumbs
  • keep (someone) under (one's) thumb
  • rule of thumb
  • stand out like a sore thumb
  • stand/stick out like a sore thumb
  • stick out
  • stick out like a sore thumb
  • stick out like a sore thumb, to
  • the thumbs up/down
  • thumb (one's) nose at (someone or something)
  • thumb a lift
  • thumb a ride
  • thumb nose
  • thumb nose at
  • thumb on the scale
  • thumb one's nose
  • thumb through
  • thumb through (something)
  • thumb your nose at
  • thumb your nose at somebody/something
  • thumb your nose at someone
  • thumb/hitch a lift
  • thumbs down
  • thumbs up
  • turn thumbs down
  • turn thumbs down (on something)
  • turn thumbs down on someone/something
  • turn thumbs up
  • turn thumbs up (on something)
  • twiddle (one's) thumbs
  • twiddle one’s thumbs
  • twiddle one's thumbs
  • twiddle one's thumbs, to
  • twiddle thumbs
  • twiddle your thumbs
  • two thumbs up
  • under (one's) thumb
  • under somebody's thumb
  • under someone’s thumb
  • under someone's thumb
  • under the thumb of (someone)
  • under thumb
References in classic literature
"Let it alone," said Tom Thumb; "give me some fish, Hunca Munca!"
THEN there was no end to the rage and disappointment of Tom Thumb and Hunca Munca.
Original Peter Rabbit Books
"'Now kick in, damn you, Bill Roberts, an' finish'm' the referee says to me, an' I tell'm to go to hell as Bill an' me flop into the next clinch, not hittin', an' Bill touches his thumb again, an' I see the pain shoot across his face.
The Valley of the Moon
"I leave it to any expert in the world whether that is not the mark of his thumb."
When those packets were sealed up, Jonas Oldacre got McFarlane to secure one of the seals by putting his thumb upon the soft wax.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes
With these words she put the ring upon her left thumb, lifted the young man with one hand, and walked away with him under her arm.
Yellow Fairy Book
There were four protruding fingers and a horrid red, spongy surface where the thumb should have been.
I glanced down at my hand, which was throbbing painfully, and then, for the first time, saw that my thumb had been cut off and that the blood was pouring from my wound.
Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
what do you know against him?" said the Rector laying down his reels, and putting his thumbs into his armholes with an air of attention.
Middlemarch
I was eight or nine, in velveteen, diamond socks ('Cross your legs when they look at you,' my mother had said, 'and put your thumb in your pocket and leave the top of your handkerchief showing'), and I had travelled by rail to visit a relative.
Margaret Ogilvy
To be Mary-Annish is to behave like a girl, whimpering because nurse won't carry you, or simpering with your thumb in your mouth, and it is a hateful quality, but to be mad- dog is to kick out at everything, and there is some satisfaction in that.
From this walk a passage called Bunting's Thumb, because it is that length, leads into Picnic Street, where there are real kettles, and chestnut-blossom falls into your mug as you are drinking.
The Little White Bird
The Wizard reached out, caught the wee creature in his hand, and holding its head between one thumb and finger and its tail between the other thumb and finger he pulled it apart, each of the two parts becoming a whole and separate piglet in an instant.
Dorothy and the Wizard in Oz
Then she lifted her right hand, with the thumb pointed upward, and said:
The Marvelous Land of Oz
"Our business is with the Scots," quoth the elder; "for it was the Scots who cut off daddy's string fingers and his thumbs."
The White Company