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单词 nimble-fingered
释义 nimble-fingered, a.
Quick and dexterous with the fingers; light-fingered.
1621Quarles Argalus & P. (1678) 35 The nimble-fingered Lass Took the forg'd Letter.1690Dryden Amphitryon i. i, O, my nimble-fingered God of Theft, what make you here on Earth..?1727Gay Begg. Op. i. i, He..is as nimble-fingered as a juggler.1773Gentl. Mag. XLIII. 593 It should seem..that there are nimble-fingered ladies in all parts of the world.1810Bentham Offic. Apt. Maximized, Extr. Const. Code (1830) 65 note, Too simple to present any demand for instruction in the nimble-fingered art.
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