| 单词 | to twiddle one's thumbs, or fingers |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto twiddle one's thumbs, or fingers c. to twiddle one's thumbs, or fingers, to keep turning them idly around each other; figurative to have nothing to do, to be idle. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > inaction > idleness, lack of occupation or activity > be idle or unoccupied [verb (intransitive)] emptyeOE to tell the clock1527 idle1668 to kick one's heels1703 twirl1777 gammer1788 to twiddle one's thumbs, or fingers1846 to make (also do) kef1852 goof1932 doss1937 to sit on one's hands1939 to bugger about ——1946 to spin one's wheels1960 the world > movement > motion in specific manner > revolution or rotation > revolve or rotate [verb (transitive)] > twirl > twiddle > specifically the thumbs to twiddle one's thumbs, or fingers1846 1846 D. Jerrold Mrs. Caudle xxii. 81 You'd have all the world do nothing half its time but twiddle its thumbs. 1850 G. Cupples Green Hand ii. 13/1 The..cotton-grower twiddled his thumbs, and looked modestly down on the deck. 1883 R. L. Stevenson Lett. (1901) I. vi. 284 I have to twiddle my fingers and play patience. 1904 Times 15 June 4/1 We didn't twiddle our thumbs much that week. < as lemmas |
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