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词汇 twiddle your thumbs
释义
Idiom
twiddle your thumbstwiddle (your) thumbs
to do nothing.
Dan spent a whole day twiddling his thumbs, waiting for a package to be delivered.
idiomtwiddle your thumbsto do nothing, either because you have nothing to do, or because you are waiting for something to happen:We don't want to strike, but we can't just sit around twiddling our thumbs until the management produce an offer.Basically, he's getting paid £20,000 a year to sit in an office and twiddle his thumbs.

twiddle (one's) thumbs

To wait idly because one cannot take action or has nothing to do at the moment. Although the phrase refers to an actual movement of the hand (in which one's fingers are interlaced and each thumb is brought over the other in succession), the phrase is usually used figuratively. I'm just twiddling my thumbs here in the ER, waiting for someone to give me an update on Claire's condition.

twiddle your thumbs

be bored or idle because you have nothing to do.

ˌtwiddle your ˈthumbs

(informal) do nothing while you are waiting for something to happen: I had to sit at home twiddling my thumbs, waiting for the phone to ring.
If you twiddle your thumbs, you move them around each other while your fingers are joined together.
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