Смысл: thumbs 
thumb 1. [θʌm] n
<Í> 1. 1) большой палец (руки)
with his thumb and finger - большим и указательным пальцем
2) большой палец перчатки
3) выступ, выступающая часть (чего-л. )
2. мера длины (приравниваемая к одному дюйму )
a thumb's breadth - шириной в один дюйм /в палец/
♢ Tom Thumb - мальчик с пальчик
a rule of thumb см.
under smb.'s thumb, under the thumb of smb. - всецело в руках кого-л., у кого-л. под башмаком /под каблуком/
some men are under the thumbs of their wives - некоторые мужья (находятся) под каблуком /под башмаком/ у своих жён, некоторые мужья - подкаблучники
to keep smb. under one's thumb - держать кого-л. под каблуком /под башмаком/
to stick out like a sore thumb - обращать на себя внимание; бросаться в глаза; колоть глаза, оскорблять взор /взгляд/
to give a quick thumb through the book - быстро пролистать /просмотреть/ книгу
to twiddle one's thumbs - бездельничать, бить баклуши
to turn down the thumb(s) on smth. - быть против чего-л.; говорить, что номер не пройдёт
to turn up the thumbs on smth. - быть за что-л.; обеими руками подписаться под чем-л.
to be all thumbs - быть неловким /неуклюжим/
his fingers are all thumbs - у него руки-крюки
to bite one's thumbs - сердиться, раздражаться
to bite the thumb at smb. - уст.
to fash one's thumbs (about) - шотл.
to whistle on one's thumbs - шотл.
put your thumbs up! - не робей!, не вешай носа!; держи хвост морковкой!
2.[θʌm] v
<Í> 1. 1) захватать, загрязнить (особ. книгу
the book was thumbed out of existence - книгу совершенно истрепали
2) пролистать, просмотреть (тж.
to thumb (through) a book - пролистать книгу, прочитать книгу по диагонали
2. ощупывать (большим пальцем)
3. неловко обращаться (с чем-л. ; тж.
to thumb the piano - играть одним пальцем на пианино; бренчать кое-как на пианино
4. уминать, разравнивать
he thumbed (down) the tobacco in his pipe - он плотно набил трубку
5.амер. разг. на дороге )
♢ to thumb one's nose - амер.
to thumb a lift - а) «голосовать» (на дороге ); б) подъезжать на попутной машине
<Í> 1. 1) большой палец (руки)
2) большой палец перчатки
3) выступ, выступающая часть (
2. мера длины (
2.
<Í> 1. 1) захватать, загрязнить (
2) пролистать, просмотреть (
2. ощупывать (большим пальцем)
3. неловко обращаться (
4. уминать, разравнивать
5.
twiddle thumbs Идиома
all thumbs
turn thumbs down
turn thumbs down on
twiddle one's thumbs
Idiom(s): twiddle one's thumbsTheme: 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!
turn thumbs up
Idiom(s): turn thumbs up (on sb or sth)Theme: ACCEPTANCE
to accept someone or something; to approve someone or something.
• The board of directors turned thumbs up on my proposal and voted to fund the project.
• When the boss turned thumbs up, I knew everything was okay.
• The committee turned thumbs up on Carl as the new manager.
thumbs up on
Idiom(s): thumbs up on sb or sthTheme: SUPPORT
in favor of someone or something.
• Bob is thumbs up on hiring Claude.
• I never hoped she'd agree with our plan, but she's totally thumbs up on it.
thumbs down on
Idiom(s): thumbs down on sb or sthTheme: OPPOSITION
opposed to someone or something.
• Bob is thumbs down on hiring anyone else.
• I had hoped that she'd agree with our plan, but she's thumbs down on it.
All fingers and thumbs
If you're all fingers and thumbs, you are too excited or clumsy to do something properly that requires manual dexterity. 'All thumbs' is an alternative form of the idiom.Fingers and thumbs
If you are all fingers and thumbs, you are being clumsy and not very skilled with your hands.Thumbs down & thumbs up
If something gets the thumbs up, it gets approval, while the thumbs down means disapproval.twiddle (one's) thumbs
To delay idly because one cannot booty activity or has annihilation to do at the moment. Although the byword refers to an absolute movement of the duke (in which one's fingers are interlaced and anniversary deride is brought over the added in succession), the byword is usually acclimated figuratively. I'm aloof twiddling my thumbs actuality in the ER, cat-and-mouse for addition to accord me an amend on Claire's condition.Learn more: thumb, twiddletwiddle one's thumbs
Fig. to canyon the time by twirling one's thumbs. What am I declared to do while cat-and-mouse for you? Sit actuality and twiddle my thumbs? Don't sit about twiddling your thumbs. Get busy!Learn more: thumb, twiddletwiddle (one's) thumbs
To do little or nothing; be idle.Learn more: thumb, twiddletwiddle one's thumbs, to
To be bored; to be idle. The addiction of idly axis one’s thumbs about anniversary added during a aeon of activated cessation gave acceleration to this cliché, which began activity in the mid-nineteenth century. “You’d accept all the apple do annihilation . . . but twiddle its thumbs,” wrote Douglas Jerrold (Mrs. Caudle’s Curtain Lectures, 1846).Learn more: twiddle
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