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A lack of skill in gardening; brown thumb. / (more generally) An inability to make animals or plants in one's care thrive. / A person with a black thumb.

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black thumb

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A lack of skill in gardening; brown thumb. / (more generally) An inability to make animals or plants in one's care thrive. / A person with a black thumb.

She has a black thumb and can't keep any plants alive.

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A lack of skill in gardening; brown thumb.

I think of doctors as having the equivalent of green thumbs or black thumbs in gardening.

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(more generally) An inability to make animals or plants in one's care thrive.

Before investing in a terrarium or aquarium, however, check your student for "Black Thumb Disease." Nothing is so depressing as to continually keep killing off plants or animals without knowing what's happening to them.

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