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  • 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.

Hi this is Tutor Nck and this isIidioms 251. The idiom today is to have

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