0 present participle of twiddle
1 to move something repeatedly between your fingers, especially without any purpose:
For those of you who cannot yet totally let go, here's the opportunity to keep your publishers from twiddling their thumbs.
Unless it meddles in local authority matters, it will be twiddling its proverbial thumbs.
We cannot afford the luxury of sitting here just twiddling our thumbs.
No real attempt is made to organise work for these scientists, and many of them are sitting there doing little more than twiddling their thumbs.
These civil servants were not just sitting around twiddling their thumbs.
Because he is zealous and energetic he does not sit twiddling his thumbs.
For the members of some of those units, twiddling their thumbs can be just as demoralising as having to go from one operation to another.
That is a ludicrous state of affairs, because it leaves expensive highly trained surgeons twiddling their thumbs rather than operating on patients.
