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twiddle your thumbs
释义
twiddle your thumbs
to waste your time and achieve nothing because you have nothing to do
Graduates who have invested time and their parents' money to go to university donot want to sit twiddling their thumbs on the dole.
Examples of 'twiddle your thumbs' in a sentence
twiddle your thumbs
You could twiddle your thumbs and stare out of the window.
Times, Sunday Times
(
2010
)
For a portrait you just have to sit and try not to twiddle your thumbs.
Times, Sunday Times
(
2007
)
How often have we heard about moments of quiet in a manager's life, where all you are left to do is twiddle your thumbs?
Times, Sunday Times
(
2008
)
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