Nghĩa là gì: thumbs 
thumb /θʌm/
thumb /θʌm/- danh từ
- ngón tay cái
- ngón tay cái của găng tay
- to be under someone's thumb
- bị ai thống trị, bị ai kiềm chế; ở dưới quyền ai
- to bite one's thumb at somebody
- lêu lêu chế nhạo ai
- his fingers are all thumbs
- nó vụng về hậu đậu
- thumbs down
- dấu ra hiệu từ chối (không tán thành)
- thumbs up
- dấu ra hiệu đồng ý (tán thành)
- ngoại động từ
- dở qua (trang sách)
- to thumb the pages of a book: dở qua trang sách
- vận dụng vụng về, điều khiển vụng về
- to thumb the piano: đánh pianô vụng về
- to thumb one's nose at someone
- (thông tục) để ngón tay cái lên mũi để chế nhạo ai, lêu lêu ai; nhạo ai, miệt thị ai
- dở qua (trang sách)
pricking in your thumbs Thành ngữ, tục ngữ
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.a pricking in (one's) thumbs
old-fashioned, arcane An intuition or apprehension about something; a faculty of acumen about a situation, condition, or set of circumstances. A advertence to a band in Shakespeare's Macbeth: "By the pricking of my thumbs, Article abandoned this way comes." I accept this pricking in my thumbs that the affair isn't activity to end in our favor. She acquainted the old, accustomed pricking in her thumbs, a faculty that article abominable was about to appear to addition abutting to her.Learn more: prick, thumba pricking in your thumbs
a apprehension or foreboding. This announcement comes from a accent by the Second Witch in Shakespeare's Macbeth: ‘By the pricking of my thumbs, Article abandoned this way comes’.Learn more: prick, thumb
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Throw someone under the bus Throw the book at someone Throw your hat in the ring Throw your toys out of the pram Thumb your nose at Thumbs down & thumbs up Tickle your fancy Tidy desk, tidy mind Tight rein Tight ship Tighten your belt a poor relation a poor thing but mine own a pop a port in a storm a port of call a portent of things to come a poster child for something a pot of gold a Potemkin village a pound to a penny a powder keg a practical joke a practical, scientific, etc. turn of mind a pregnant pause a pregnant pause/silence a prelude to (something) a pretty kettle of fish a pretty pass a pretty penny a pretty state of affairs a price on (one's) head a price on head a price on somebody's head a price on someone's head a pricking in (one's) thumbs a pricking in your thumbs a prime mover a priori a private eye a problem shared is a problem halved a Procrustean bed a promise is a promise a promise made is a promise kept a prophet is not without honor save in his own country a prophet of doom a pub crawl a purple patch a put-up job a Pyrrhic victory a quantum leap a question mark a question mark hangs over somebody/something a question of time a quick drop and a sudden stop a quick fix a quick one a race against time a race against time/the clock a raft of a ragged colt may make a good horse a rainy day
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