| Word | have butter-fingers = be a butter-fingers |
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| Description | be unable to catch deftly or hold securely This phrase comes from the idea that hands covered with butter will be slippery, making holding on to anything difficult. There was also a dialect sense of unable to handle anything hot as if your fingers were made of melting butter. Butterfingers! is often jeeringly shouted at someone who has failed to catch a ball in a game. be unable to catch deftly or hold securely This phrase comes from the idea that hands covered with butter will be slippery, making holding on to anything difficult. There was also a dialect sense of unable to handle anything hot as if your fingers were made of melting butter. Butterfinge |
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