单词	thumb
释义	thumb From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary EnglishRelated topics: Humanthumbthumb1 /θʌm/ ●●● S3 noun [countable]  1HBHthe part of your hand that is shaped like a thick short finger and helps you to hold things a baby sucking its thumb She held the coin carefully between finger and thumb.2 DCCthe part of a glove that fits over your thumb3 → be all fingers and thumbs4 → the thumbs up/down5 → be under somebody’s thumb → rule of thumb, → stand/stick out like a sore thumbExamples from the Corpusthumb• But it was plainly calculated as a thumb in the eye of the United States.• Then he looked at Bill Wall, extending his hand with finger and thumb crooked.• The third had a grotesquely enlarged thumb.• She put the mustache back and pressed it with her thumb.• I sat there and twiddled my thumbs.• As a rule of thumb, funds with durations of one to three years are relatively conservative.• When constructing a footpath we follow rules of thumb. thumbthumb2 verb  1 → thumb a lift2 → thumb your nose at somebody/something → thumb through something→ See Verb tableExamples from the Corpusthumb• Two or three cars passed me and I tried to thumb a lift, but they didn't stop.• Faubus had again thumbed his nose at the judiciary by refusing to appear.• Voters here have always been drawn to against-the-grain outsiders who make a career of thumbing their noses at party traditionalists.• Once again Azadi thumbed through the intelligence report for some inspiration.• As a joke I actually bought it for Richard to thumb through.Origin thumb1 Old English thuma
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