Idiom
green fingers
Meaning
A seemingly natural gardening ability.
Meaning adapted from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Examples
“She has green fingers and grows beautiful roses.”
“My grandmother has green fingers — everything she plants seems to thrive.”
“Though he had never studied horticulture, the young tenant displayed such green fingers that the neglected estate garden flourished within a single season.”
Examples
simple
“She has green fingers and grows beautiful roses.”
contextual
“My grandmother has green fingers — everything she plants seems to thrive.”
complex
“Though he had never studied horticulture, the young tenant displayed such green fingers that the neglected estate garden flourished within a single season.”
Origin
PIE word *pénkʷe From green (adjective) + fingers, possibly popularized by the British gardener and radio and television broadcaster Cecil Henry Middleton (1886–1945).
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