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English-Language Idioms: All Thumbs

All Thumbs means clumsy, awkward, or unskillful. The idiom is a phrase whose meaning differs from the meanings of the individual words considered separately.

All Thumbs

Clumsy, awkward, unskillful, ungainly.

All thumbs.

Handles something clumsily, performs / plays carelessly.

I am all thumbs when it comes to shuffling cards. (shuffle – to mix)

Thumb [θʌm] – Thumb.

An idiom is a phrase whose meaning differs from the meanings of the words in it, considered each separately and individually.

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