Idiom
green thumb
Meaning
A natural skill for gardening.
Meaning adapted from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Examples
“My grandmother has a green thumb; her roses are beautiful.”
“He never studied gardening, but he clearly has a green thumb because his tomatoes grow better than anyone else's.”
“Though she lived in a cramped city apartment, her green thumb transformed the tiny balcony into a lush jungle of herbs and flowers.”
Examples
simple
“My grandmother has a green thumb; her roses are beautiful.”
contextual
“He never studied gardening, but he clearly has a green thumb because his tomatoes grow better than anyone else's.”
complex
“Though she lived in a cramped city apartment, her green thumb transformed the tiny balcony into a lush jungle of herbs and flowers.”
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