+126 The expression, "you stick out like a sore thumb" really doesn't make sense, I mean if you looked a thumb that was sore you would not have any idea it was sore, amirite?

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Our thumbs are incredibly useful, they are opposable. If one is sore, and you cannot use it you will look silly doing the most simple of tasks. Thus you will stick out of a crowd.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Hmm, I don't know it still doesn't make that much sense though. Like you could still power through it if its just sore?

by Anonymous 12 years ago

I guess it just depends on how sore it is? When my thumb was broken, I could barely use that hand.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

I gotcha lol

by Anonymous 12 years ago

I always thought that if your thumb was sore you couldn't bend it so it would "stick out".

by Anonymous 12 years ago

That would make sense!!!

by Anonymous 12 years ago

I always pictured, like in cartoons when somone hits their thumb with a hammer and you can see it pulsing and it's red. Like that

by Anonymous 12 years ago