fingers

[lisa666]

Hi, everyone

Would you please tell me whether "black fingers" means anything special? I know if a person has green fingers, that means he or she is good at making plants grow.How about black fingers? Please help. Thank you.

 

[lotus888]

A gardener would have a green thumb.

I'm not sure what a black finger is.


--lotus

 

[emsr2d2]

I have never heard the term before. Where did you hear it?

Lotus, in BrE, good gardeners have green fingers. The thumb is never mentioned.

 

[lotus888]

... an interesting difference between AmE and BrE for this same idiom.

Is it perhaps because Americans are all thumbs?

http://idioms.thefreedictionary.com/have+green+fingers
http://idioms.thefreedictionary.com/have+a+green+thumb



--lotus