brown thumb Идиома

all thumbs

clumsy, unable to hold it, fingers feel like thumbs When I try to sew a button on my shirt, I'm all thumbs.

green thumb

skill in making plants grow He has a real green thumb and has a beautiful garden.

rule of thumb

general rule, guideline The rule of thumb for a resume is Don't exceed two pages.

stick out like a sore thumb

not fit or blend, look out of place The ugly painting stuck out like a sore thumb in the art gallery.

thumb a lift/ride

hitchhike Their car had a flat tire so they thumbed a lift to the nearest gas station.

thumb one

look with disfavor or dislike, refuse to obey My friend thumbed his nose at me when I asked him to stop talking so loud.

turn thumbs down

disapprove or reject, say no The building committee turned thumbs down on our plans to make the office larger.

turn thumbs down on

reject The other negotiating team turned thumbs down on our wish to postpone the meeting until tomorrow.

under your thumb

under your control, doing your wishes Willie is under your thumb now. He does what you tell him to do.

twiddle one's thumbs

Idiom(s): twiddle one's thumbs

Theme: TIME - WASTE

to fill up time by playing with one's fingers.
• What am I supposed to do while waiting for you? Sit here and twiddle my thumbs?
• Don't sit around twiddling your thumbs. Get busy!

brown thumb

The disability or abridgement of accomplishment in agronomical or growing plants, such that they end up dying or abort to abound at all. Derived from "green thumb," acceptation the opposite. I'd love a flowerbed in the aback yard, but I accept such a amber deride that the flowers would all die aural a week.Learn more: brown, thumb

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under construction under a cloud of suspicion ugly as sin two-time two of a kind twist one's arm twist sb around one's little finger twiddle one's thumbs turn up one's toes turn turtle turn thumbs up