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"all thumbs" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
The phrase is typically used to describe someone as being clumsy or having difficulty with manual tasks. For example, you could say: "He tried to fix the broken pipe, but he was all thumbs and ended up making the problem worse."
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all thumbs
adjective
Clumsy; awkward; not dextrous.
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It's all thumbs.
He was all thumbs there.
I'd say that I was all thumbs, but being all thumbs might have helped me.
"I felt I was all thumbs," she said.
Layers of surgical gloves make me all thumbs.
"Dynamite" gambles on all thumbs being up, and for the opposite forecast of all thumbs down, my son's friends created the new antonym: "shynamite".
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What else besides serial chaos and all-thumbs in a hot kitchen could better prepare you for the world today, a veritable gruel of uncertainty?
This is not to say that A-Rod is fundamentally unsound; it's more his all-thumbs approach to life, his exceedingly unsubtle presence as the reigning clubhouse hub.
To wit, the T.I.Y. bow (known in industry parlance, a bit confusingly, as "self-tied") is manlier than the too neat, pre-tied kind, thought to be the province of all-thumbs arrivistes and Chippendales dancers.
Even into his 50s, scrimmaging on occasion with all-thumbs sports reporters, McGuire was capable of breaking the prominent nose (mine) of an unprepared teammate rather than taking aim at the rim.
Sure, there are real-life Mirandas (and plenty of Michaels, too), who can turn freshly minted Yale summas and magnas into all-thumbs incompetents.
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