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apprentice
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| Posted: Mon Aug 08, 2005 8:10 pm
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be all fingers and thumbs..any other synonyms for that one?
Paweł
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Nick Wagg
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| Posted: Mon Aug 08, 2005 10:13 pm
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"apprentice" <mailpawel@wp.pl> wrote in message
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| Quote: | be all fingers and thumbs..any other synonyms for that one?
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"Clumsy".
"Ham-fisted".
"Kack-handed" which is also a pejorative term for being left-handed. |
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Molly Mockford
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| Posted: Tue Aug 09, 2005 2:19 am
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At 17:13:19 on Mon, 8 Aug 2005, Nick Wagg <naw@transcendata.com> wrote
in <dd80b1$eks$1$830fa795@news.demon.co.uk>:
| Quote: | "apprentice" <mailpawel@wp.pl> wrote in message
news:e0e49$42f767d9$540aa681$26396@news.chello.pl...
be all fingers and thumbs..any other synonyms for that one?
"Clumsy".
"Ham-fisted".
"Kack-handed" which is also a pejorative term for being left-handed.
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In Scots, "hanless" (=handless, one's hands having gone AWOL)
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Molly Mockford
They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety
deserve neither liberty nor safety - Benjamin Franklin
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Jim
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| Posted: Tue Aug 09, 2005 2:54 am
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Nick Wagg wrote...
| Quote: | "apprentice" <mailpawel@wp.pl> wrote in message
news:e0e49$42f767d9$540aa681$26396@news.chello.pl...
be all fingers and thumbs..any other synonyms for that one?
"Clumsy".
"Ham-fisted".
"Kack-handed" which is also a pejorative term for being left-handed.
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similarly, gauche |
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