(noun) a clumsy person, a careless person

Example Sentences:

The 5 year-old boy was a butterfingers when he visited his grandmother. He caused a lot of damage by knocking over and breaking a lot of her expensive things.

After Shawn got drunk, he was a butterfingers. We got kicked out of the pub because he broke all of our glasses!

From the Blogs:

Charles Tillman Causes Butterfingers

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Similar idioms:

  1. a bull in a china shop
  2. kick someone out
  3. the straw that broke the camel’s back
  4. all thumbs

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