> as lemmas

1546 J. Heywood Dialogue Prouerbes Eng. Tongue ii. v. sig. H Whan he should get ought, eche fynger is a thumbe.

1870 Echo 16 Nov. Your uneducated man is all thumbs, as the phrase runs; and what education does for him is to supply him with clever fingers.

1872 Routledge's Every Boy's Ann. 155/2 Whose fingers were reported..to be ‘all thumbs’.