green fingers
Origin of green fingers
1First recorded in 1930–35
Words Nearby green fingers
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How to use green fingers in a sentence
She carried something carefully before her, holding it above the reach of the alfalfa's snatching green fingers.
A Prairie Infanta | Eva Wilder BrodheadHe could see the brown and green fingers of seaweed clutching the sand when the waves went out.
Captives of the Flame | Samuel R. DelanyOverhead the spruce boughs met, and laced their green fingers together, sending down a damp, spicy odor.
Ross Grant Tenderfoot | John Garland
British Dictionary definitions for green fingers
green fingers
pl n
considerable talent or ability to grow plants: US and Canadian equivalent: green thumb
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