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单词 to twiddle one's thumbs, or fingers
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to 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.
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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.
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