black thumb

名词 n.

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A lack of skill in gardening; brown thumb.
    — I think of doctors as having the equivalent of green thumbs or black thumbs in gardening.
  2. An inability to make animals or plants in one's care thrive. broadly
    — Before investing in a terrarium or aquarium, however, check your student for "Black Thumb Disease." Nothing is so depressing as to continually keep killing off plants or animals without knowing what's happening to them.
  3. A person with a black thumb.
    — "Why?" She smiled. "Especially on family occasions like this, he feels he's been something of a black thumb in the Garden of Life."
  4. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see black, thumb.

词形变化

black thumbs plural

词源

By analogy to green thumb.
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