thumb

f. parmağıyla çevirmek (sayfa), yıpratmak (kitap)
i. başparmak

The best way to dull the pain of your best friend's murder is to have your mother abandon you as soon as possible It's like hitting your thumb with a hammer,

En iyi arkadaşının öldürülmesinin verdiği acıdan kurtulmanın en iyi yolu annenin seni en kısa zamanda rahat bırakması. Bu acı, başparmağına inen çekiç darbesi gibi.

Wetting his thumb, Greb began spiritedly turning the stiff yellow pages of his listings book.

Başparmağını ıslatan Greb, kataloğun sert sarı sayfalarını şevkle çevirmeye başladı.

- Go out the front door. I'll meet you there.
- But it doesn't open. There's no doorknob.
- Press your thumb to the plate.
- What plate?

- Ön kapıdan çık. Seninle orada buluşurum.
- Ama açılmıyor. Kapı tokmağı yok.
- Baş parmağını levhaya bastır.
- Ne levhası?

And now, Doctor, perhaps you would kindly attend to my thumb, or rather to the place where my thumb used to be.

And of course we are familiar with the English common law rule of thumb that said a man could in fact use a stick no bigger than his thumb to discipline his wife and family.
Patricia Ireland

For myself I hold no preferences among flowers, so long as they are wild, free, spontaneous. Bricks to all greenhouses! Black thumb and cutworm to the potted plant!
Edward Abbey

For myself I hold no preferences among flowers, so long as they are wild, free, spontaneous. Bricks to all greenhouses! Black thumb and cutworm to the potted plant!
Edward Abbey

Give a lift to a tomato, you expect her to be nice, don't ya? After all, what kind of dames thumb rides, Sunday school teachers?
Martin Goldsmith

Here's a very good rule of thumb in politics: losing begets losing.
John Podhoretz

His finger and thumb closed on her pulse, as I thought instinctively and unconsciously, as she spoke.

I glanced down at my hand, which was throbbing painfully, and then, for the first time, saw that my thumb had been cut off and that the blood was pouring from my wound.

I never knew when I was gong to leave. I might be walking over to a kid's house, then of all a sudden I would just stick out my thumb and hitchhike across three states.
Rickie Lee Jones

I put up my thumb and it blotted out the planet Earth.
Neil Armstrong

I put up my thumb and it blotted out the planet Earth.
Neil Armstrong

I stuck out like a sore thumb when I came on, just by the fact that I looked so different. I think that adjustment for the audience was a hurdle for me.
Elisabeth Rohm

I've got him here, he whispered, jerking his thumb over his shoulder; he's all right.

If you send up a weather vane or put your thumb up in the air every time you want to do something different, to find out what people are going to think about it, you're going to limit yourself. That's a very strange way to live.
Jessye Norman

Infants may use pacifier or thumb or fingers to soothe themselves.

It suddenly struck me that that tiny pea, pretty and blue, was the Earth. I put up my thumb and shut one eye, and my thumb blotted out the planet Earth. I didn't feel like a giant. I felt very, very small.
Neil Armstrong

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