| 单词 | one's fingers all thumbs |
| 释义 | > as lemmasone's fingers all thumbs c. one's fingers all thumbs (etc.): said of a person who is clumsy or wanting in dexterity. ΚΠ 1546 J. Heywood Dialogue Prouerbes Eng. Tongue ii. v. sig. H Whan he should get ought, eche fynger is a thumbe. 1870 Echo 16 Nov. Your uneducated man is all thumbs, as the phrase runs; and what education does for him is to supply him with clever fingers. 1872 Routledge's Every Boy's Ann. 155/2 Whose fingers were reported..to be ‘all thumbs’. < as lemmas |
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