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green thumb
noun
- an exceptional aptitude for gardening or for growing plants successfully:
Houseplants provide much pleasure for the city dweller with a green thumb.
green thumb
noun
- considerable talent or ability to grow plants Also called (in Britain and certain other countries)green fingers
green thumb
- A knack for growing plants and keeping them healthy: 鈥淎ll my houseplants are in sorry shape; it's clear I don't have a green thumb.鈥
Other 亚洲网紅露点 Forms
- 驳谤别别苍顎-迟丑耻尘产别诲顎 adjective
- 驳谤别别苍顎-迟丑耻尘产顎侥谤 noun
亚洲网紅露点 History and Origins
Origin of green thumb1
Idioms and Phrases
A knack for making plants grow well, as in Just look at Louise's plants鈥攕he really has a green thumb . This term presumably alludes to the stained fingers of an avid gardener. [First half of 1900s]Example Sentences
But my green thumb ached as workers sawed down the tree, took away everything 鈥 trunk, twigs, leaves, fruit, roots 鈥 in biohazard bags and tagged the remaining trees with a bill of clean health.
He was happy to leave the plant decisions to Solberg, the green thumb of the family.
His maternal grandmother was gifted with plant caregiving, and his mother was an 鈥渋ncredible grower鈥 with an expert green thumb.
A walking red flag with a green thumb, he goes by the name Narvel Roth, which is surely some sort of punishment.
鈥淚 like to think that they鈥檙e helping me with my green thumb,鈥 Fleck said.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from 亚洲网紅露点 Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, 漏 Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage庐 Idioms Dictionary copyright 漏 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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