📖 Определения и значения для слова thumb
📒 the short, thick finger at the side of the hand, slightly apart from the other four
- She still sucks her thumb when she's worried.
- He smiled and raised a thumb in greeting.
- I picked up the beetle carefully between finger and thumb.
📒 the part of a glove that covers the thumb
- There's a hole in the thumb.
📒 to be awkward with your hands so that you drop things or are unable to do something
📒 to hope that your plans will be successful or that something will take place in the way that you want it to
- Let's hold thumbs that you get the job.
📒 a practical method of doing or measuring something, usually based on past experience rather than on exact measurement
- As a rule of thumb, you should cook a chicken for 20 minutes for each pound of weight.
📒 to be very easy to notice in an unpleasant way
- The blue building stood out like a sore thumb among the whitewashed villas.
- If you wear a suit to the party, you’ll stand out like a sore thumb.
📒 used to show that something has been accepted/rejected or that it is/is not a success
- Their proposals were given the thumbs down.
- It looks like it's thumbs up for their latest album.
- He made a thumbs-up sign through the window to tell us everything was fine.
📒 to move your thumbs around each other with your fingers joined together
📒 to do nothing while you are waiting for something to happen
- We can't just sit here twiddling our thumbs and hoping everything will be all right.
📒 completely controlled by somebody
- She’s got him under her thumb.