Be all fingers and thumbs

Definition

finger / 'fÇŋgǝ(r) / n ၁။ (က) လက္ေခ်ာင္း။ He poked at the spider with a stubby finger. ❍ She dipped her finger into the mixture. ❍ He counted the guests on his fingers (ie used his fingers to help him do the sum). (ခ) လက္မ မဟုတ္ေသာ လက္ေခ်ာင္း။ a broken finger ❍ a beckoning finger ❍ She clicked her finger and thumb together. See also FOREFINGER, INDEX FINGER, RING FINGER ❍ HAND ❍ BODY ၂။ လက္အိတ္မွ လက္ေခ်ာင္း။ ၃။ မုန္႔လက္ညိႇဳးကဲ့သို႔ လက္ေခ်ာင္းပံုစံမုန္႔။ a finger of toast. See also FISH FINGER v ကိုင္သည္။ စမ္းသည္။ She fingered the knife hidden in her pocket. ❍ He was nervously fingering his tie. ❍ I don't like eating food that's been fingered by someone else. ❏ be all fingers and thumbs [ IDM ] အေပါက္အလမ္း မတည့္ျဖစ္သည္။ ကိုး႐ိုးကားရား ႏိုင္သည္။ Can you thread this needle for me? I'm all fingers and thumbs today. ❏ fingering / 'fÇŋgǝrÇŋ / n [U] လက္ေခ်ာင္းျဖင့္ တီးနည္း၊ တီးကြက္။ a piano piece with tricky fingering. ❏ finger-mark n လက္ေခ်ာင္းရာ။ လက္ရာ။ leave finger-marks all over the wall. ❏ get, pull, etc one's finger out [ IDM ] ( infml ) အပ်င္း မႀကီးဘဲ အလုပ္ႀကိဳးစားသည္။ If you don't pull your finger out, you'll never get the job finished. ❏ have, etc one's fingers in the till [ IDM ] ( infml ) (မိမိတာဝန္ယူထားေသာ ေငြထဲမွ) ႏိႈက္သည္၊ ခိုးသည္။ He was caught with his fingers in the till. ❏ have a finger in every pie [ IDM ] ( infml ) ပါေလရာ ပဲခူးဆားလုပ္သည္။ ေနရာတကာ စြက္ဖက္သည္။ ❏ have / keep one's finger on the pulse (of sth) [ IDM ] ေနာက္ဆံုး အေျခအေနကို ဂ႐ုစိုက္ ေလ့လာလ်က္ရိွသည္။ ❏ lay a finger on sb [ IDM ] ကိုယ္ထိလက္ေရာက္ လုပ္သည္။ If you lay a finger on that child, I'll never forgive you. ❏ put one's finger on sth [ IDM ] ေထာက္ျပသည္။ I can't quite put my finger on the flaw in her argument. ❏ work one's fingers to the bone [ IDM ] အ႐ိုးေၾကေၾက အေရခန္းခန္းလုပ္သည္။

Examples

1. He had long bony fingers.
2. She ran her fingers over the smooth wood.
3. There was a hole in one of the fingers of her glove.
4. Serve with fingers of toast.
5. There is something wrong with her story but I can't quite put my finger on it.
6. I can't put my finger on what's bothering me
7. but it doesn't feel right.
8. There's something wrong with this piece
9. but I can't quite put my finger on it.