Thumb Phrases

Phrases

• A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush
• A finger of Fudge is just enough to give your kids a treat (Cadbury's advertising slogan)
• All fingers and thumbs
• All thumbs (clumsy or physically inept)
• At first hand
• Bite your hand off
• Biting the hand that feeds IT (The Register advertising slogan)
• Bound hand and foot
• Business at hand
• Cap in hand
• Cash in hand
• Caught with your hand in the cookie jar
• Caught with your hand in the till
• Check you on the flip side
• Chick flick
• Cock a snook
• Condemned out of hand
• Cool Hand Luke (Paul Newman movie)
• Dab hand at
• Don't bite the hand that feeds you
• Eat out of someone's hand
• Extend the hand of friendship
• Fickle finger of fate
• Finger food
• Finger in many pies
• Fish and finger pie (Beatles song lyric)
• Flick your Bic (Bic Lighters advertising slogan)
• Flip a bitch
• Flip out
• Flip side
• Flip someone the bird
• Flip the bird
• Flip your lid
• Fold your hand
• Force his hand
• Free hand
• Get out of hand
• Get the upper hand
• Give a hand
• Go cap in hand
• Got to hand it to you
• Hand a line
• Hand in glove
• Hand in hand
• Hand in your notice
• Hand it on a plate
• Hand it over
• Hand job
• Hand me down
• Hand me downs
• Hand over
• Hand over fist
• Hand picked
• Hand to mouth
• Hand's turn
• Hat in hand
• Have a hand in
• Have it in hand
• He put in his thumb and pulled out a plum (line from nursery rhyme)
• Heart to God, hand to man (The Salvation Army advertising slogan)
• Heavy Lunch (Nickname of American football player Norman Hand)
• Helping hand
• I Want To Hold Your Hand (Beatles song)
• In the palm of your hand
• Keep your finger on the pulse
• Keep your hand in
• Know like the back of your hand
• Lay a finger on
• Lend a hand on the land (WWII slogan)
• Lend a helping hand
• M&Ms melt in your mouth, not in your hand (M&Ms chocolate advertising slogan)
• Nobody better lay a finger on my Butterfinger! (Nestle's Butterfinger advertising slogan)
• Off hand
• On the one hand
• On the other hand
• One hand tied behind your back
• One hand washes the other
• Point the finger
• Pull your finger out
• Put it on the long finger
• Put your finger on it
• Put your finger on the button
• Put your hand in your pocket
• Put your hand to the plough
• Raise your hand if you're sure (Sure advertising slogan)
• Right hand man
• Royal flush (in poker - a hand including a ten jack queen king and ace of the same suit)
• Rule of thumb
• Show your hand
• Skim milk does not come from skinny cows (Alba Dry Milk advertising slogan)
• Skim the surface
• Sleight of hand
• Sticks out like a sore thumb
• Strengthen your hand
• Take your hand in marriage
• Talk to the hand
• The Adventure of the Engineer's Thumb (Sherlock Holmes story)
• The answer is at hand
• The hand is quicker than the eye
• The hand that rocks the cradle rules the world
• The matter in hand
• The milk chocolate melts in your mouth, not in your hand (M&M advertising slogan)
• The moving finger writes
• The moving finger writes; and, having writ, moves on (from a poem by Fitzgerald)
• The right hand doesn't know what the left hand is doing
• Three Finger (Nickname of Mordecai Brown)
• Thumb a ride
• Thumb lashing
• Thumb your nose
• Thumbnail sketch
• Thumbs down
• Thumbs up
• Toss up (flip a coin to decide on something)
• Try your hand
• Twist around your little finger
• Under My Thumb (Rolling Stones song)
• Under the thumb
• Upper hand
• What we have here is a failure to communicate (line from Cool Hand Luke)
• Whip hand
• Who's finger do you want on the trigger?
• Wrapped around your little finger