Phrases with word thumb

The spinal cord is about 18 inches long and is the thickness of your thumb.

HEALTH & FITNESS

There’s no rule of thumb in terms of how many credit cards you should have.

TRAVEL

Even if your green thumb record involves previously managing to somehow cause succulents to perish, it’s a cinch to begin growing your own catnip or wheatgrass.

PETS

If this is your first baby, you have no idea how fast your labor will progress, so being safe rather than sorry is the best rule of thumb.

PARENTING

Consequently, the only way to make it work is to either contort your finger or thumb or simply switch to portrait.

BOOKS

This layout apparently makes it user to use the keyboard for typing purely from your thumb.

TECHNOLOGY

I’m a big guy with large hands, so reaching over that 20 percent portion of screen with my thumb is easy.

BOOKS

The general rule of thumb about how companion parrots age is this that the larger the bird, the longer the lifespan.

PETS

The controls were fine with the thumb stick and since I tend to hold the button down to shoot the A button worked ok.

GAMING

(but as an honest blogger I should tell you that at one point I was cussing like a sailor and my thumb was the size of my head)

HOUSE & HOME

I find a good rule of thumb is: fuller skirts need to be longer on me (from just above the knee to just below) but straight or A-line skirts often look better if they are short.

FASHION

Yep, big thumb s up — I love this look, and your little dogs are winners!

FASHION

Many new cars have the option to connect your phone to the vehicle using Bluetooth, so that calls can be made or answered without pulling out the phone, but CarPlay takes that a step further by letting users dictate their text messages and send or receive them without having to attempt to «thumb type» while driving.

ENVIRONMENT

My Googling Gyno gave me the thumbs up afterwards.

HOUSE & HOME

We enjoyed this immensely and it got thumbs up from participating diners.

FOOD & BEVERAGES

The Android buttons are odly placed if you use the Tablet right-handed and horizontally: your thumb lands right where the buttons are and it’s actually easier to simply rotate it by 180 degrees and hold it from the opposite side.

BOOKS

Garrett, sitting there on the stretcher, watching Headrick laugh and talk as if a compound fracture of the thumb were no worse than a hangnail, was impressed.

SPORTS

Their findings suggest a rule of thumb that a 1-degree-Celsius rise in temperature above the norm during the growing season lowers wheat, rice, and corn yields by 10 percent.

ENVIRONMENT

There is no guarantee these funds will outperform, but if I had to choose the three funds most likely to do so, these funds would get my thumbs up.

MONEY

Big thumbs up for me, and I will be adding this to my weekly rotation!

FOOD & BEVERAGES

Right now they stick out like a sore thumb.

HOUSE & HOME

Lite and lean is the general rule of thumb until about 2 years old.

PETS

Here is why babies suck their thumb and what you can do if it bothers you.

PARENTING

The standards, which will be written in plain English, will be accompanied by useful guidance and examples of menus that have been given the thumbs up by cooks, caterers and of course pupils!

EDUCATION

You then hold the bar in place by pressing the thumb side of your fists against the bar for support.

HEALTH & FITNESS

And on the Torch 9860 in landscape I find the keyboard to be just a little too big — to the point where my thumbs are traveling further than I want them to.

BOOKS

On the other hand, we have increasing costs at a time when clients can least afford it, and more clients facing the reality that just because it’s a little case doesn’t mean that the contents of their servers, smart phones, thumb drives, Gmail accounts and so on are less important to the resolution of the case.

LAW

I wouldn’t say they would look exactly human, still very unhuman like in fact, but at least walks on two legs, has opposable thumbs…, I like where your heads at on the whole warm-blooded vs. cold-blooded thing, but who knows how their biology works, perhaps they could be both, or neither.

RELIGION

Based on CBO rules of thumb, we estimate that a just 1 percentage point annual increase in interest rates above CBO’s projection would increase interest costs by $ 2 trillion (to $ 8.8 trillion) over a decade and by $ 325 billion (to $ 1.3 trillion) in 2028.

BUSINESS

A good rule of thumb is to have a drink of water each time you breastfeed your baby.

PARENTING

By contrast, he estimates, owners of single-family homes collectively «earned» about $ 25 billion in 2015 simply by «twiddling their thumbs» and watching the value of their drywall soar.

BUSINESS

After writing the parts of prostitute Dinah, pimp Chester, and Sin-Dee’s john and cab driver Razmik for Mickey O’Hagan, James Ransone, and Armenian actor Karren Karagulian, respectively, Baker cast the rest of his film employing the same rule of thumb he used to shoot it: accessibility.

MOVIES & TV

By running your fingers and thumb over the pad, you can use it like a mouse.

GAMING

With any luck you picked up a few over Christmas and can give the thumbs a rest until normal service resumes.

GAMING

Being mindful of your neck, shift your gaze to your top thumb if that arm is extended.

HEALTH & FITNESS

And the power button and volume rocker sits on the right-hand edge — right where you instinctually want to place your thumb when trying to remove it.

TECHNOLOGY

A good rule of thumb is to choose a weight that will make you want to die on those last few.

HEALTH & FITNESS

So when its cost explodes relative to normal inflation, every financial rule of thumb goes out the window.

MONEY

As a rule of thumb, you don’t have to use every single piece of the formula for your resume objective.

JOBS

Lathe and plaster, dated windows and lousey doors stand out like a sore thumb.

REAL_ESTATE

What on earth are the thumb down people on?

SPORTS

So basically I’m just a bad neighbor with a black thumb.

FASHION

As you might expect in a lightweight car, the doors have a thin cross section and some body panels flex under thumb pressure.

AUTOMOBILES

A good rule of thumb is if you can’t pronounce it, don’t eat it.

HEALTH & FITNESS

As a rule of thumb, one should prefer stocks with a D/E ratio of below 0.5.

MONEY

This results in my having more stock assets in the portfolio than I would have if I were using the generally recommended rules of thumb.

BUSINESS

I don’t have a garden but I, too, am no longer cursed with a black thumb AND MY PLANTS ARE ALIVE/THRIVING.

FOOD & BEVERAGES

A good rule of thumb is to never buy a mutual fund that charges more than 1 % a year.

MONEY

Some of the most common habits in children include sucking the thumb, biting the nails and banging the head.

PARENTING

Puppies are hard-wired to explore their environment, and since their paws don’t have opposable thumbs, they use the next best thing: their sharp teeth.

PETS

- большой палец (руки)

with his thumb and finger — большим и указательным пальцем 

- большой палец перчатки
- выступ, выступающая часть (чего-л.)
- мера длины (приравниваемая к одному дюйму)

- захватать, загрязнить (особ. книгу)

the book was thumbed out of existence — книгу совершенно истрепали 

- пролистать, просмотреть (тж. thumb through)

to thumb (through) a book — пролистать книгу, прочитать книгу по диагонали 

- ощупывать (большим пальцем)
- неловко обращаться (с чем-л.; тж. to thumb it)

to thumb the piano — играть одним пальцем на пианино; бренчать кое-как на пианино 

- уминать, разравнивать

he thumbed (down) the tobacco in his pipe — он плотно набил трубку 

- амер. разг. «голосовать» (на дороге)

to thumb one’s nose — амер. показать нос 
to thumb a lift — а) «голосовать» (на дороге); б) подъезжать на попутной машине 

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Tom Thumb 

а) мальчик с пальчик; б) карлик, лилипут; в) презр. ничтожество, пигмей

Press your thumb on this spot. 

Прижмите к этому месту свой большой палец.

I thumbed a ride to school. 

Я поехал в школу на попутной машине /автостопом/.

I accidentally cut my thumb. 

Я случайно порезал большой палец.

Don’t suck your thumb, dear. 

Родной, не надо сосать пальчик. / Милый, вынь пальчик изо рта.

He thumbed through the report. 

Он пролистал отчёт.

His fingers turned to thumbs. 

Его пальцы одеревенели.

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He hooked his thumb through a loop of his pants.  

She held the coin carefully between finger and thumb.  

Для того чтобы добавить вариант перевода, кликните по иконке ☰, напротив примера.

You broke my thumb.

Ты мне палец сломала.

But that old thumb never fails.

Да, но вот большой палец никогда не подведет.

Quit your stalling, and stop biting your thumb!

Не увиливай, и прекрати кусать палец.

Take your thumb out of that soup, Major.

Вытащи палец из супа, майор.

He slammed the car door, and caught my thumb.

Да. Он захлопнул дверцу машины и прищемил мне палец.

I’ll stop a car, and I won’t use my thumb.

Я остановлю машину, и я не буду использовать большой палец для этого.

My thumb, baby.

Мой большой палец, детка.

Index, middle finger and thumb, all clear as rain.

Индекс, средний и большой палец, всё очень чисто.

What an extraordinary thumb.

Какой интересный большой палец

But your thumb looks a little stubborn.

Но большой палец немного упрямый.

I was supposed to copy all the department files onto a thumb drive, and it kept freezing, and I got annoyed, and I don’t know what happened, but all the files are gone on every computer.

Я должна была скопировать файлы всего департамента на флешку, но она зависла, я начала нервничать и я не знаю что произошло, но все файлы пропали на всех компьютерах. Они все исчезли.

Did you know that the Bureau purchased 8,231 thumb drives last quarter?

Ты знал, что бюро закупило 8 231 флешку за прошедший квартал?

He copying a file named 17-6-21 onto a thumb drive.

Он копирует на флешку файл под названием 17-6-21.

I found the thumb drive that Carl sent you.

Я нашла флешку, которую послал вам Карл.

Is there any chance we can fish that thumb drive out of the river?

Есть шанс, что мы сможем выловить ту флешку из реки?

— The thumb isn’t.

Большой не похож.

My Bonnie sucks her thumb.

Бонни сосёт свой пальчик.

Put quinine on her thumb and she’ll stop sucking it quick enough.

Посыпьте пальчик хинином, она перестанет сосать его.

The rest of the time Tom Thumb always alone and far from his brothers lived in the woods with his game companions, the woods animals.

В остальное время Мальчик с пальчик был всегда один и вдалеке от своих братьев, жил в лесу со своими друзьями, лесными животными.

Tom Thumb decided to wait until nightfall to get inside the castle and give himself the butterfly to the mysterious little princess.

Мальчик с пальчик решил подождать ночи, чтобы пробраться в замок и самому отдать бабочку таинственной маленькой принцессе.

Once inside the castle, Tom Thumb had to find the little princess without wakening anyone.

Оказавшись в замке, Мальчик с пальчик должен был найти маленькую принцессу, никого не разбудив.

— I see he still has you under his thumb.

— А ты все еще у него под каблуком.

Man, it’s great being under someone’s thumb again!

Черт, как же здорово снова быть под каблуком!

He still under that thing’s thumb?

— Он до сих пор у него под каблуком.

Oh, she had the whole office under her thumb, knew everyone’s business.

Весь офис был у нее под каблуком, она здесь всем заправляла.

You get to exercise your newfound power, I squirm under your thumb, resent the student becoming the teacher, and then push comes to shove and we all get to realize what our real roles should be.

Ты захочешь попрактиковаться в свежеобретённой власти. Я пытаюсь пошевелиться под твоим каблуком, возмущаясь, что ученик стал учителем, а затем настаёт критический момент, и мы все наконец-то поймём, каковы наши роли на самом деле.

Hey, Tom Thumb, you lost your army.

Эй, мальчик с пальчик, ты потерял свою армию.

Or Tom Thumb, he always plays for money.

Или, например, Мальчик с пальчик. Всё время играет на деньги в прятки.

And for this reason he was called Thumb.

По этой причине его назвали Мальчик с пальчик.

Tom Thumb.

Мальчик с пальчик.

Tom Thumb was often dreaming.

Мальчик с пальчик часто мечтал.

Fidel’s all thumbs with this kind of thing.

А у Фиделя руки не из того места растут.

Whitey Black is a moron. lm not even sure he has opposable thumbs.

-Вайти Блэк идиот. И руки у него, как у обезьяны.

A great terraformer needs the green thumb of a gardener, the eye of a painter and the soul of a poet.

Великому терраформеру нужны руки садовника, зрение художника и душа поэта.

Why do you continuously lick your fucking thumb?

У тебя итак потные руки.

A useless bag of thumbs what I am.

Да руки у меня не оттуда растут.

LITTLE RED RIDING HOOD AND TOM THUMB VS. THE MONSTERS

КРАСНАЯ ШАПОЧКА И МАЛЬЧИК СПАЛЬЧИК ПРОТИВ МОНСТРОВ

Little Red Riding Hood and Tom Thumb.

Красная Шапочка и Мальчик Спальчик!

Tom Thumb.

= Мальчик Спальчик…

Tom Thumb.

Мальчик Спальчик.

Tom Thumb!

= Мальчик Спальчик!

The thumb, index finger and middle finger of your left hand…

Правило, указательный палец и средний палец твоей правой руки…

— Put your thumb, index finger and…

) — Запомни правило, указательный палец и…

Listen, young lady, first rule of thumb in practicing law…

Послушайте, юная леди, первое правило судебной практики:

Rule of thumb around here, Mr. Pryzbylewski:

Железное правило, мистер Презболуски:

I have a rule of thumb — six weeks.

У меня такое правило — шесть недель.

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«Let it alone,» said Tom Thumb; «give me some fish, Hunca Munca!»

THEN there was no end to the rage and disappointment of Tom Thumb and Hunca Munca.

«‘Now kick in, damn you, Bill Roberts, an’ finish’m’ the referee says to me, an’ I tell’m to go to hell as Bill an’ me flop into the next clinch, not hittin’, an’ Bill touches his thumb again, an’ I see the pain shoot across his face.

«I leave it to any expert in the world whether that is not the mark of his thumb.»

When those packets were sealed up, Jonas Oldacre got McFarlane to secure one of the seals by putting his thumb upon the soft wax.

With these words she put the ring upon her left thumb, lifted the young man with one hand, and walked away with him under her arm.

There were four protruding fingers and a horrid red, spongy surface where the thumb should have been.

I glanced down at my hand, which was throbbing painfully, and then, for the first time, saw that my thumb had been cut off and that the blood was pouring from my wound.

what do you know against him?» said the Rector laying down his reels, and putting his thumbs into his armholes with an air of attention.

I was eight or nine, in velveteen, diamond socks (‘Cross your legs when they look at you,’ my mother had said, ‘and put your thumb in your pocket and leave the top of your handkerchief showing’), and I had travelled by rail to visit a relative.

To be Mary-Annish is to behave like a girl, whimpering because nurse won’t carry you, or simpering with your thumb in your mouth, and it is a hateful quality, but to be mad- dog is to kick out at everything, and there is some satisfaction in that.

From this walk a passage called Bunting’s Thumb, because it is that length, leads into Picnic Street, where there are real kettles, and chestnut-blossom falls into your mug as you are drinking.

The Wizard reached out, caught the wee creature in his hand, and holding its head between one thumb and finger and its tail between the other thumb and finger he pulled it apart, each of the two parts becoming a whole and separate piglet in an instant.

Then she lifted her right hand, with the thumb pointed upward, and said:

«Our business is with the Scots,» quoth the elder; «for it was the Scots who cut off daddy’s string fingers and his thumbs.»