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Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary - 4th Edition

accident-prone adj
amateur n
amateurish adj
awkwardness n, at awkward adj (DIFFICULT)
awkwardness n, at awkward adj (EMBARRASSING)
awkwardness n, at awkward adj (NOT HELPFUL)
awkward adj (MOVEMENT)
awkwardly adv (MOVE)
blundering adj, at blunder v (MISTAKE)
bumble v
bumbling adj
bungling adj, at bungle v
butterfingers n
cack-handed adj
clodhopper n (PERSON)
clumsy adj
cowboy n (DISHONEST PERSON)
crap adj
fumble v (DO STH AWKWARDLY)
gauche adj
geek n
ham-fisted adj
hopeless adj
hulk n (AWKWARD)
ill-equipped adj
inability n
incapable adj
incapacitating adj, at incapacitate v
incapacity n
incompetence n
incompetent adj
incompetent n
inept adj
inexpert adj
lumpish adj
maladroit adj
nerd n
obey v
paralysed adj
piss artist n
-prone suffix
rubbish adj
show pony n
uncoordinated adj
ungainly adj
unskilled adj
weak adj (NOT GOOD)
wooden adj (AWKWARD)
woodenly adv
paralyzed, at paralysed adj
be in no fit state to do sth
be unable to do sth
be unequal to sth
can't boil an egg idiom
like a bull in a china shop idiom
be all fingers and thumbs idiom
no great shakes idiom
have nothing on sb or sth idiom
jack-of-all-trades, master of none idiom
be lost without sb/sth idiom
couldn't organize a piss-up in a brewery idiom
sb couldn't act, argue, fight, etc. their way out of a paper bag idiom
not have a prayer idiom
can't do sth to save your life idiom
the spirit is willing, but the flesh is weak idiom
all (fingers and) thumbs idiom

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Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary - 4th Edition

for toffee idiom


have two left feet idiom
at your worst idiom
be all thumbs, at be all fingers and thumbs idiom

© Cambridge University Press 2013

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