🇸🇪 MySwedish fluency bits #64, Att ha tummen mitt i handen

A publication of Swedish expressions that help you get fluent faster

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2 min readDec 19, 2021

Hello beautiful reader ❤️. This is another chapter of our series — Swedish fluency bits. This is a series of short lessons based on native expression. I hope you will like it!

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Att ha tummen mitt handen — To be impractical

There is a nice idiomatic expression in Swedish used for impractical people. Att ha tummen mitt handen = Att vara opraktiskt, klumpig eller hjälplös.

A word-for-word translation would be “to have a thumb in the middle of the hand”

Kursledaren har detaljerade beskrivningar så att även den som har tummen mitt i handen klarar uppgiften.

The course leader has detailed descriptions so that even “the one with the thumb in the middle of the hand “can handle the task.

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🇸🇪 That is all for today. See you in the next lesson! 🇸🇪

To get the most of this lesson write down the expression three times and use it in a sentence. Combe back tomorrow and make sure that you remember the expression

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