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He had green fingers, and the reflection from them showed in his face.

You really do have green fingers.

Tonight these dames were going to have greener fingers than Percy Thrower.

He said his success in designing mixing consoles stemmed more from "having green fingers and a very inquiring mind than any structured research process".

She told me how "We got some right thickies who turned out to have green fingers right good jobs to go to when they left.

"Eating is awkward when you have green fingers," Ms. Menzel observes.

This Mr. Bond has green fingers against me, I surrender."

Allen himself has admitted in the past: 'Mia has a talent for mothering the way some people have green fingers for gardening.'

'Looking back at my past life, hanging round Law Courts, I found absolutely no evidence for the proposition that I have green fingers.'

Mr. Hessayon himself may once have had green fingers under the printer's ink, but nowadays, in the family acre at Broxbourne, outside London, he provides worker satisfaction for a hired gardener.

'MIA HAS a talent for mothering, the way some people have green fingers for gardening or an ear for music,'Woody Allen commented during recent child custody battle proceedings.

The woman has a green thumb, but she's simply taken over the place.

"I never thought of you as having a green thumb."

Artificial plants are perfect for anyone who does not have a green thumb.

She had a green thumb; something was blooming wherever he looked.

"We don't exactly have a green thumb yet," admitted the girl.

His passion for plants started early: his mother has a green thumb.

Nearby are demonstration gardens to give ideas and inspiration to those who have a green thumb.

And watching it grow, I almost believe I do have a green thumb.

Or, if she has a green thumb, consider a potted plant - but keep it small and tasteful.

Moreover, he himself was not a farmer, and had never even had a green thumb for gardening.

"My mom says I have a green thumb."

"I have a green thumb, you know," said Lady Keith.

Perchance his new wife has a green thumb.

She then said that as an encourager of dancers, "David White has always had a green thumb."

Loke was also an art lover collector, and had a green thumb.

"Plenty of nature lovers have a green thumb, but it's rare to meet one with a fish thumb."

Mrs. Treacy does not pretend to have a green thumb.

"Either you have a green thumb and it's something you know how to do, or you don't."

Jenny didn't exactly have a green thumb.

In the cabin, when he'd mentioned riding "It looks like you have a green thumb," she commented horseback, she'd imagined a much smaller version.

You must have a green thumb."

My place was a favored repository for homeless houseplants, on the presumption that as a gardener I had a green thumb.

Here, as at Well-Sweep, being a good storyteller seems almost as important as having a green thumb.

Having a green thumb.

Mr. Raacke doesn't have a green thumb; he's more interested, he says, in "growing the community."