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His rusty shopping cart with all of his belongings is in Mrs. Pearl's driveway, a big bag of mulch on the bottom of it. Apparently he has a green thumb. (source)green thumb = a special ability to make plants grow
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Fertilizer-like Green Thumb, the chemical stuff.† (source)
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Like any group of skilled artisans, the elite of which Sophie was a member (they included such craftsmen as highly accomplished tailors from France or Belgium who were employed in making fine clothes out of the fancy goods snatched on the station ramp from condemned Jews, expert cobblers and workers in high-quality leather, gardeners with green thumbs, technicians and engineers possessing certain specialist capabilities, and a handful like Sophie with combined linguistic and secretarial gifts) were spared extermination for the raw pragmatic reason that their talents came as close to being invaluable as that word had any such meaning in the camp.† (source)
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Jenny didn't exactly have a green thumb.† (source)
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"I don't have a green thumb," I said to Winifred.† (source)
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But I'd always thought of it as a hyperbole, a traditional description for something that had no real physiological link, like a green thumb.† (source)
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Like maybe you got her green thumb.† (source)
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Adam had the green thumb in our household.† (source)
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