| 词组 | all fingers and thumbs |
| 释义 | (redirected from all fingers and thumbs)all thumbsUncoordinated or clumsy with one's hands. My mother does beautiful calligraphy, but I'm all thumbs—I can barely hold the pen! all thumbsFig. very awkward and clumsy, especially with one's hands. Poor Bob can't play the piano at all. He's all thumbs. Mary is all thumbs when it comes to gardening. all thumbsPhysically awkward, especially with respect to the hands, as in When it comes to knitting, Mary is all thumbs. The notion of this idiom derives from a proverb in John Heywood's collection of 1546: "When he should get aught, each finger is a thumb." all thumbsBRITISH, AMERICAN orall fingers and thumbsBRITISHIf you are all thumbs or all fingers and thumbs, you do something in a very clumsy way. Can you open this? I'm all thumbs. When I came to give the baby a bath, I was all fingers and thumbs. all thumbs Lacking physical coordination, skill, or grace; clumsy. |
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