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All thumbs

adj

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Adjective
  1. 1
    Clumsy; awkward; not dextrous. idiomatic, not-comparable

    "I am all thumbs when it comes to shuffling cards."

Etymology

From the proverb "when he should get aught, each finger is a thumb", from John Heywood's Collection of 1546.

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