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.