be all thumbs

Meaning

1. be all (fingers and) thumbs

   to be awkward with your hands so that you drop things or are unable to do sth

In the movies · 3

• One still is all thumbs.Bicentennial Man1999
• I got them all under my thumb.Training Day2001
• All thumbs and webbed feet.The Bad Seed1956

Learn it in full scenes

• Training Day2001
  • Jake's First Day on the Job
  • Alonzo Makes Jake Tell a Story
  • Alonzo's Felony Stop

From the same entry

• hold thumbs
• thumbs up
• under thumb
• a rule of thumb
• stand out like a sore thumb
• twiddle your thumbs
• thumb your nose at
• thumb through