Примеры twiddle

• A free-standing commission would involve short bursts of hectic activity and long periods of the twiddling of thumbs.

• He said that doctors were twiddling their thumbs while waiting for the necessary beds to be made available.

• Today one stands still and twiddles the hoop round oneself.

• We should not have a standstill in the sense that everyone is twiddling his thumbs for months and months.

• There is an immense problem facing this country, and it cannot be dealt with by twiddling and footling around with the subsidy or by legislation of this kind.

• You can hardly expect him to sit at home twiddling his thumbs when he can be with his friends fighting for his cause in picketing power stations and the like.

• When no one comes to his counter or to his repair shop, he does not sit idly by and say that twiddling one's thumbs is very good for one's character.

• He was also fond of drawing hands with interlocked fingers, which looked as though the characters were twiddling their thumbs.