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Basit
Can you help me to explain these Idioms ?
1) One's fingers are all thumbs
2) To be in the autumn of one's life
3) To live like fighting cocks
Thanks
25 de jul. de 2017 15:11
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Just to add to Nicholas's answer, the first is very rarely used, the second is commonly used, and the third is so unheard of I wouldn't use it. I looked it up and apparently it means the same as "living large" but if you use it no one will know what you mean.
25 de julio de 2017
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One's fingers are all thumbs can also be said as I'm all fingers and thumbs. It means I am clumsy. You may say this when you drop something.
To be in the autumn of one's life. This refers to your age. Spring is new life - when you are born, summer would be when you are 20s-40s. Autumn of one's life means you are getting old.
I have never seen your third idiom before.
25 de julio de 2017
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Basit
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Inglés, Urdu
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