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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: “All my houseplants are in sorry shape; it's clear I don't have a green thumb.”
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Other 51Թ Forms
- -ٳܳ adjective
- -ٳܳİ noun
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51Թ History and Origins
Origin of green thumb1
First recorded in 1940–45
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Idioms and Phrases
A knack for making plants grow well, as in Just look at Louise's plants—she really has a green thumb . This term presumably alludes to the stained fingers of an avid gardener. [First half of 1900s]Advertisement
Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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