Sentence examples for twiddling thumbs from inspiring English sources

There was no twiddling thumbs waiting for the government or authorities to help.

I was a make-believe writer twiddling thumbs at university trying to get in through the back door.

In fact, it's the experience of being met by a blind eye for 10 years, twiddling thumbs as Ryan Gosling mops up the applause, that lends Isaac's performance its oomph.

Vilma is a "granger" – a term I coined to describe the "grey anger" of those who won't willingly enter the people farms, who don't want to spend their retirement twiddling thumbs and perennially tapping little white balls into a hole in a patch of cultivated grass.

Don Quixote is "brimming over with anecdotes and digressions", says Dr Alexander Samson, lecturer in Spanish "golden age" literature at UCL, "the kind of thing that one might experience a great deal of" while twiddling thumbs and chewing the fat with fellow inmates.

He then shifted his gaze to land value increases of single family homes in Vancouver from 2015-2016 and found "the typical [single family home] household made $262,000 last year by twiddling thumbs".

Twiddling his thumbs?

But India is just twiddling its thumbs.

Better than being at home twiddling my thumbs.

• "Sometimes twiddling your thumbs is the least malignant activity".

ADMITTEDLY, he did not sit twiddling his thumbs.