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have green fingers

have green fingers verb: to be naturally talented at gardening and have a special ability to make plants grow and thrive.

Verb

have green fingers (third-person singular simple present has green fingers, present participle having green fingers, simple past and past participle had green fingers)

  1. (idiomatic, informal) To be naturally talented at gardening and have a special ability to make plants grow and thrive.

Forms of have green fingers

third-person singular presenthas green fingers
present participlehaving green fingers
past participlehad green fingers
pasthad green fingers

Questions about have green fingers

What does have green fingers mean?
Have green fingers means to be naturally talented at gardening and have a special ability to make plants grow and thrive.
What part of speech is have green fingers?
Have green fingers is a verb.
What is the past tense of have green fingers?
The past tense of have green fingers is had green fingers.

Words near have green fingers in the dictionary

  1. have got more chins than Chinatown
  2. have got someone's back
  3. have got someone's six
  4. have got the face on
  5. have got to
  6. have green fingers
  7. have had enough
  8. have had it
  9. have had it up to here
  10. have had one's chips
  11. have had one's day

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