English Dictionary

black thumb

名詞

広義

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.

日本語の意味

園芸の技量が乏しく、植物や動物をうまく育てられない状態。また、そうした性質を持つ人を指す。

Despite her enthusiasm, her black thumb means every houseplant she adopts wilts within a week.

意欲はあるのに、園芸が苦手なせいで、彼女が育てる観葉植物はどれも一週間以内に枯れてしまう。

意味（1）

A lack of skill in gardening; brown thumb.

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

意味（2）

(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.

意味（3）

A person with a black thumb.

Why? She smiled. Especially on family occasions like this, he feels he's been something of a black thumb in the Garden of Life.

意味（4）

Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see black, thumb.

black thumbs （ plural ）