octopus arms
Cephalopod grasping limbs
Octopus arms describes a style of multitasking where someone seems to be doing many things simultaneously, like an octopus with its eight limbs: She had octopus arms going in the kitchen—stirring, chopping, checking the oven.
The phrase can also describe someone whose hands seem to be everywhere at once, often unwelcomely: He was all octopus arms on the dance floor.
- tentaclesFlexible grasping appendages
- suction cupsAir-sealed adhesive discs
- suckersEasily fooled people
- graspingGreedy for wealth
- writhingTwisting the body convulsively
grabbing hold · coiling · flexible · boneless · reaching · slithering · appendages · tight squeeze · squeeze · grip · underwater · deep sea · ink · marine · cephalopod · wrap · embrace · slimy
- eightsoctave, octet, byte, octuplets, pieces of eight
- appendagesfins, fin, flipper, flippers, tail
- Biomimicrydragonfly wings, butterfly wing, structural color, honeycomb structures, honeycomb structure
- animalscat, dog, bird, fish, cow
- grippersclaw, claws, pincer, pincers, gripper
octopus armsfins
Swimming appendages
flippers · jointed legs · dorsal fins · pectoral fins · tail fins
octopus, arms, octopi, octopuses, arming, armless, disarm, disarmament, forearm