The thumbs that must have been twiddling on film sets around the world… Nakedness has been very big this year.
But she's not the only one twiddling her thumbs.
With America's government (including NASA) at home twiddling its collective thumbs, no one was available to comment on this.One option, says Chris Lintott, an astronomer at Oxford University, might be to short-circuit the whole argument by moving the event to a neutral, non-NASA ground.
"If a proposal is not going to pass, why do we stand around twiddling our thumbs, with one side saying, 'I don't like your idea,' and the other side saying, 'Well, I don't like your idea.' Why don't we just DO something?" That was not the approach of Governor Rowland.
Even success could fall foul of different budget cycles which could leave one team twiddling their thumbs while the other caught up.
He sat at one end, I sat at the other... after a couple of weeks of twiddling my thumbs, I needed something to start playing with".
Thousands sit most of each day in fetid cells with deeply uncongenial cellmates, often in cells originally designed for one, at best twiddling their thumbs, at worst building attitudes and alliances that will almost guarantee them returning to crime the minute they are released.
"I was injured, and then I was twiddling my thumbs at home," Williams, 28, said last week.
The ECB is twiddling its thumbs as Europe's economy crumbles.
The majority party in both chambers of Congress have been twiddling their collective thumbs and failing to pass much needed legislation.
"It's just sitting there twiddling its thumbs," said Matt Mountain, the director of NASA's Space Telescope Science Institute.
