twiddle your thumbs
to do nothing for a period of time, usually while you are waiting for something to happen:
I arrived early for the meeting so I was twiddling my thumbs for half an hour.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Waiting
- await
- hang
- hang around (somewhere)
- hang on
- hang round (somewhere)
- hold
- lounge
- mark time idiom
- mill
- mill around
- queue
- ready
- sit
- stand
- wait in
- wait list
- wait on sth
- wait sth out
- wait up
- wait list
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