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fash one's thumb en · VERB
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(Scotland, dated, idiomatic) To bother oneself; to worry about something.
As soon as Balquherrie got his turn served, away he went and never fashed his thumb about his debt, that he knew would beggar honest folk.
1871, Charles Gibbon, For lack of gold, page 36:How I heard of your imprisonment or the wrong intended ye, never fash your thumb […]
a. 1835, John Mackay Wilson, Wilson's Tales of The Borders (and of Scotland)
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