词汇 | all thumbs |
词源 | all thumbs. All thumbs for a clumsy person, or someone with no dexterity has its roots in an old English saying first recorded in John Heywood’s Proverbs (1562): “Whan he should get ought, eche fynger a thumbe.” |
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