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Sentence #258915

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 CK CK April 27, 2019 April 27, 2019 at 1:22:31 AM UTC link Permalink

Annotation:

"Be all thumbs" is an idiom.

https://www.google.com/search?q...+thumbs"+idiom

CK CK April 27, 2019 April 27, 2019 at 1:49:12 AM UTC link Permalink

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I'm all thumbs in the kitchen.

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