ALL THUMBS

all thumbs: translation

Fig. very awkward and clumsy, especially with one's hands. •

Poor Bob can't play the piano at all. He's all thumbs.

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Mary is all thumbs when it comes to gardening.

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all thumbs: translation

awkward, blunderheaded, blundering, boorish, bumbling, bungling, butterfingered, careless, clownish, clumsy, clumsy-fisted, cumbersome, fingers all thumbs, fumbling, gauche, gawkish, gawky, graceless, ham-fisted, ham-handed, heavy-handed, hulking, hulky, inelegant, left-hand, left-handed, loutish, lubberly, lumbering, lumpish, maladroit, oafish, ponderous, sloppy, stiff, uncouth, ungainly, ungraceful, unhandy, unwieldy