Timeline for What is an informal term for a person who can't do anything right?
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| Dec 30, 2018 at 18:45 | vote | accept | Pavel Orekhov | ||
| Dec 30, 2018 at 6:59 | comment | added | Peter Cordes | "klutz" fits the question well, which seems to be asking for "physically clumsy" specifically, not incompetent in general like "fuckup". "klutz" doesn't have much of a connotation of being a bad / useless person in general, for tasks that aren't physical / mechanical. e.g. a theoretical physicist could be all thumbs, and that's why they're a theoretician who works at a computer and/or blackboard all day instead of an experimental physicist who builds stuff in their lab. | |
| Dec 29, 2018 at 19:05 | review | Low quality posts | |||
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| Dec 29, 2018 at 18:53 | history | notice added | tchrist♦ | Needs detailed answers | |
| Dec 29, 2018 at 17:23 | comment | added | JeffC | A klutz is someone that is clumsy... a klutz would be more likely to drop and break the picture in the process of hanging it not hang it upside down. I don't think this term properly describes what OP is looking for. | |
| Dec 29, 2018 at 8:35 | comment | added | NonCreature0714 | I think I’m offering fair and not unkind criticism when I say that this answer is not American slang per se, as the OP requested, but rather is a more general English idiom and adopted Yiddish. | |
| Dec 28, 2018 at 10:57 | comment | added | Chappo Hasn't Forgotten | "All thumbs" is an adjectival phrase, whereas the question asks for a noun ("an informal term for a person"). However, "klutz" is a noun and fits the bill. | |
| Dec 28, 2018 at 0:01 | comment | added | Hot Licks | Yeah, "klutz".. | |
| Dec 27, 2018 at 22:19 | history | answered | Al Maki | CC BY-SA 4.0 |