| But don't think for a second Harris is going to sit around twiddling his thumbs. |
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| The General looked around quite nervously, twiddling his thumbs behind his back. |
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| If I'd been wearing a tie, I'd have started twiddling it and doing slow burns to an unseen camera. |
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| It was enough to leave reporters twiddling their pens, looking for answers, perhaps from a higher source. |
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| We are on the balls of our feet, like tennis players awaiting service, anxiously twiddling our sticks. |
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| You know, twiddling your thumbs really isn't as easy as it looks, they keep knocking together. |
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| Remixing sometimes sounds like twiddling the radio tuner rapidly through different stations. |
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| A few lights shone on a figure alternately twiddling knobs on various mixers and tapping keys on his computer or midi keyboards. |
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| Until then, however, the gameplay depends on twiddling two flippers and watching as your tiny silver ball swoops around the environments. |
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| All that sitting around twiddling my thumbs, and pretty soon even the dishes seemed like an interesting option. |
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| Joey was boredly twiddling his thumbs at the table, and Adie was blabbering on and on to herself in her booster seat. |
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| If I didn't come here in the night, I'd be sitting around at home, twiddling my thumbs and thinking about going to a real bar. |
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| He perched on the edge of the seat twiddling his thumbs while gazing around the room. |
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| If Valerie was at home twiddling her thumbs, there might be a problem, but she's not. |
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| Everyone sat around looking embarrassed and twiddling their thumbs as usual. |
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| She began twiddling her thumbs together and staring at the wall ahead of her. |
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| To my surprise, she was actually twiddling her thumbs while looking around herself, a politely bored expression on her face. |
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| They were stuck twiddling thumbs on a cold beach next to a military complex for two weeks. |
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| But this does not mean that we should sit twiddling our thumbs, for we are co-responsible for the building of the kingdom. |
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| Instead of twiddling your thumbs and letting frustration get the best of you, why not hit the road and discover the hidden treasures of the Vigie Peninsula? |
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| The wire, which I obtain from Harris Angling, is twisted with a twiddling stick after passing the wire twice through the eye of the swivel or snap link. |
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| Their legs are forever carrying on like a pair of compasses which someone is absentmindedly twiddling. |
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| It was like twiddling the dial of a radio, and getting all the pundits at once. |
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| A French diplomat before his marriage in 1967, he plainly had had enough of twiddling his thumbs. |
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| When a pandemic as serious as this one is developing, the government should not waste precious weeks waiting and twiddling its thumbs. |
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| He talks about the adjuvanted and unadjuvanted vaccines and the twiddling of thumbs. |
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| The court ruling was handed down on Thursday, so you can see that we have not been twiddling our thumbs. |
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| It gave us lots of time to do all the twiddling and fiddling before the Games. |
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| As a result, we have less downtime and our workforce can focus on making sales rather than twiddling with their computers. |
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| If frogs had opposable thumbs, Kermit would be twiddling them when Muppets Most Wanted begins. |
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| I don't want to see any more square-headed blokes twiddling knobs. |
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| He moved his hands in front of his face and started twiddling his fingers. |
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| The short and jittery teacher was always twiddling his hands annoyingly, stuttering when he spoke and nervously rocking back and forth, as he stood. |
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| He mumbled, twiddling his fingers like a young and nervous child. |
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| Brooke stopped twiddling her thumbs, and pressed their tips together. |
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| We add more forms, more paper, more taxes on tips, taxes on selling, taxes on buying, taxes on twiddling your thumbs, etc. What do we do when beer-propelled morons drive recklessly on our roads? |
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| Of course, while the member for Caraquet is here turning pages and twiddling his thumbs, our candidate in Caraquet is meeting with people in his riding to discuss problems they are facing. |
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| Canada has just been twiddling its thumbs. |
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| The resulting shrapnel provides insights into the nature of reality. Clearly, then, focusing the gubbins was not simply a matter of twiddling with a dial. |
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| However, our competitors don't just sit around twiddling their thumbs: if they launch their own product then I call that healthy competition, but if they try to plagiarise one of my innovations then I take immediate action. |
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| Criminal court judges are twiddling their thumbs as their dockets empty. |
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| I may look like I'm twiddling my thumbs, but don't be fooled: I am listening attentively to everything that is being said in order to record the minutes of the hearing. |
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| When the LLP concept reaches fruition in late 2006, the three gentlemen will certainly not be twiddling their thumbs, but will be chiselling away at new strategies to optimize and refine the logistics operation. |
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| And although the Commission did not have enough time to boost the egos of certain Members who were twiddling their thumbs in their hotel, it is certainly not a tragedy. |
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| The world community, United Nations Organization does not also sit twiddling their thumbs and send their ships for protection of sea routes, vessels with valuable cargo and for any counteraction to piracy. |
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| His image splits up on the huge screen, and thanks to his special glasses equipped with a mini camera, we can see him up close surrounded by his instruments, one hand twiddling a button, the other playing the keyboard. |
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| Later, some processors allowed twiddling clock speeds while booting up. |
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| By the mid-2000s they were much less in favour, doubtless fearing that help for the poor would cut health benefits. Those twiddling the fiscal dials should mull on these findings. |
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| But Jean-Jacques gets bored: he is not the kind of twiddling his thumbs. |
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| Twiddling his thumbs for long spells last season was a shock to the system. |
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| Twiddling a needle in these special points helps to identify the right spot, as a trained acupuncturist feels a tiny responsive tug on the needle. |
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