have butterfingers



have butterfingers

To be clumsy, usually momentarily, by dropping or failing to catch something. I dropped another plate! I guess I just have butterfingers today. Coach, don't put Jimmy in the outfield—he has butterfingers!
See also: butterfingers, have

Common Names:

NameGenderPronouncedUsage
Coleenkah-LEENEnglish
Ambakoum-Biblical Greek
PrimrosePRIM-rozEnglish (Rare)
Iustinus-Late Roman
Palmer['pa:mə]
Malene-Danish, Norwegian