Subtitles section Play video Print subtitles Hi this is Tutor Nck and this isIidioms 251. The idiom today is to have butterfingers. Okay. Let's take a look at the note here. This idiom can also be rephrased as to be a butterfingers. So you can either say to have butterfingers or to be a butterfingers. Okay. Let's continue. If someone has butterfingers, he or she is clumsy and often drops things or fails to catch things. And so if you threw them something and they... they're not very good at catching it. They drop it a lot. In this sense, they could be a butterfingers. Maybe it's used a lot in sports too . Like if a ball player dropped the ball or something. Somebody might accuse them as being a butterfingers too. That could be in all sports. Really anyway, let's continue here. Good. The idea of this phrase alludes to , you know. They suggest, they kind of has that idea. It alludes to if your hands were covered with butter they would be very slippery and you are likely to drop things easily. So yeah you can kind of imagine that butter fingers like your butter all over your fingers. All right. Let's continue. The origin of this term butter fingers is believed to have come from Charles Dickens. Remember the famous classic novelist by Charles Dickens novel" The Pickwick Papers' in 1836. This is the first time I think the butter fingers or the earliest citing that we can find on it. Anyway, let's look at the two. Two examples we have ,here. So somebody might say, don't let her hold this fragile statue. She often drops things and is known to have butter fingers. You say that about someone , especially a child or number two here. They say this is the third time you dropped and broke one of my expensive dishes. You are a real butterfingers. Well maybe some of you might say that. Okay. Anyway, I hope you got it. I hope clear. Thank you for your time. Bye-bye.
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