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<?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="http://www.englishforums.com/utility/FeedStylesheets/rss.xsl" media="screen"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:slash="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/slash/" xmlns:wfw="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/"><channel><title>General English Vocabulary &amp; Idiom Questions</title><link>http://www.englishforums.com/English/GeneralEnglishVocabularyIdiom-Questions/Forum29.htm</link><description>Help with defining words and idioms, and new words and idioms that you've learnt</description><dc:language>en</dc:language><generator>XMOD (Build: 3715.30106)</generator><item><title>Re: the meanings of the two phrases</title><link>http://www.englishforums.com/English/TheMeaningsPhrases/cmjnh/post.htm#228956</link><pubDate>Sat, 22 Aug 2009 13:29:48 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:228956</guid><dc:creator>Philip</dc:creator><slash:comments>0</slash:comments><comments>http://www.englishforums.com/English/TheMeaningsPhrases/cmjnh/post.htm#228956</comments><wfw:commentRss>http://www.englishforums.com/English/comments29-228956.xml</wfw:commentRss><description>Inchoateknowledge wrote:    1. You are clumsy, inept if you are all fingers and thumbs. 2. Someone who annoys you gets in your hair. Do not ask this guy to help us, he is all fingers and thumbs. Larry, could you get the children out of my hair, I have been cooking and they are under my feet the whole time. Inchoate     In AE I've heard "all thumbs" without mention of "fingers". It seems to me that all thumbs would be much more clumsy than fingers and thumbs.</description></item><item><title>Re: the meanings of the two phrases</title><link>http://www.englishforums.com/English/TheMeaningsPhrases/cmjnh/post.htm#228836</link><pubDate>Mon, 22 Jun 2009 13:29:48 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:228836</guid><dc:creator>Inchoateknowledge</dc:creator><slash:comments>1</slash:comments><comments>http://www.englishforums.com/English/TheMeaningsPhrases/cmjnh/post.htm#228836</comments><wfw:commentRss>http://www.englishforums.com/English/comments29-228836.xml</wfw:commentRss><description>1. You are clumsy, inept if you are all fingers and thumbs. 
2. Someone who annoys you gets in your hair. 
 
Do not ask this guy to help us, he is all fingers and thumbs. 
Larry, could you get the children out of my hair, I have been cooking and they are under my feet the whole time. 
 
Inchoate</description></item><item><title>the meanings of the two phrases</title><link>http://www.englishforums.com/English/TheMeaningsPhrases/cmjnh/post.htm</link><pubDate>Tue, 22 Sep 2009 13:29:48 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:228827</guid><dc:creator>Stupidboy</dc:creator><slash:comments>2</slash:comments><comments>http://www.englishforums.com/English/TheMeaningsPhrases/cmjnh/post.htm</comments><wfw:commentRss>http://www.englishforums.com/English/comments29-228827.xml</wfw:commentRss><description>could you tell me the meaning of the following setences: 
 all fingers and thumbs 
 get in someone's hair 
 please give me some examples</description></item></channel></rss>