thumbs up

Meaning

1. thumbs up / down

   used to show that sth has been accepted / rejected or that it is / is not a success

   Their proposals were given the thumbs down.

In the movies · 3

• Miller's site has kept pinging thumbs up, as has Dr. Mann's. Um...Interstellar2014
• I'm giving you a thumbs-up, just so you know.Puss in Boots: The Last Wish2022
• Okay. Thumbs up.This Means War2012
• Thumbs up their asses. Thumbs up their asses.Office Space1999
• We're gonna go again. Thumbs-up, okay?The Fall Guy2024
• "Local Bobby Gives Thumbs Up To Teen Suicide"?Hot Fuzz2007
• Hands behind your back! Thumbs up.The Silence of the Lambs1991
• Maybe. He was sending the thumbs up right until it went dark.Interstellar2014

Learn it in full scenes

• Interstellar2014
  • The Ghost in Murph's Bookshelf
  • Cooper Stumbles Into Secret NASA
  • Cooper Says Goodbye to Murph
• Puss in Boots: The Last Wish2022
  • Puss Crashes His Own Fiesta
  • Puss Learns He Has Died
  • The Doctor Gives Puss His Last Life

From the same entry

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

More idioms

• hit the road
• watch your mouth
• give five
• get a load of
• to god
• with pleasure
• while you're at it
• off the record
• one of a kind
• be mixed up in
• this minute
• ask for it