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I was as careless and butter-fingered as any child and, accordingly, during my childhood years, I kissed a large number of 'slices' and also my fair share of books.
Gail Vida Hamburg: "Kissing" Books Could Have Saved Borders Gail Vida Hamburg 2011
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No matter how benign the batting surface, or butter-fingered the catching, that suggests a problem with bowling, which the England camp is reluctant to dwell on in public.
Mechanical bowling to blame for England breakdown | Vic Marks 2011
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Dragons 'Den television entrepreneur Peter Jones hopes to tap a market of careless windsurfers and butter-fingered sailors by launching a waterproof, floating mobile phone that can withstand being dropped in the sea – or down the lavatory.
Dragons' Den entrepreneur presents the floating phone Andrew Clark 2010
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I was as careless and butter-fingered as any child and, accordingly, during my childhood years, I kissed a large number of 'slices' and also my fair share of books.
Gail Vida Hamburg: "Kissing" Books Could Have Saved Borders Gail Vida Hamburg 2011
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I was as careless and butter-fingered as any child and, accordingly, during my childhood years, I kissed a large number of 'slices' and also my fair share of books.
Gail Vida Hamburg: "Kissing" Books Could Have Saved Borders Gail Vida Hamburg 2011
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Only one side resembled a hard-nosed Premiership team and it was not the butter-fingered bunch in cherry and white.
Exeter prepare for Welford Road after riding wind against Gloucester Robert Kitson at Sandy Park 2010
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With 24 Test centuries and, almost as importantly for his butter-fingered brethren, 65 catches, Yousuf will surely bring some stickability to a side whose potential is in danger of being fatally undermined by a run of top-order collapses and double-figure totals.
Pakistan hopes pinned on Mohammad Yousuf riding to rescue in third Test 2010
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Half of the platter is made by Nobu-san, the other half by his butter-fingered student.
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'Sometimes he's butter-fingered with other people's TNT.'
Forfeit Francis, Dick 1968
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'Sometimes he's butter-fingered with other people's TNT.'
Forfeit Francis, Dick 1968
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