butter fingers
Can't hold anything
Butter fingers is a playful or mildly critical term for someone who drops things, as if their hands were slippery with butter.
Usually appears with the article: Nice catch, butter fingers.
The single-word form butterfingers works the same way and is more common.
Someone who is butter-fingered or butterfingered is clumsy with their hands.
- misplayError during competition
- dropped the ballFailed at crucial moment
- fumbleHandle with clumsy fingers
- muffMishandle clumsily
- clumsyLacking physical coordination
mishandle · drop · awkward · maladroit · oaf · klutz · two left hands · blooper · bungling · error-prone · inept · bobble · flub · flustered · blunder · uncoordinated · all thumbs · all-thumbs
manual dexterity and grip
butter fingerssteady hands
Hands that don't tremble
sure-handed · nimble fingers · dexterous · adroit · firm grip