She used to sit there and twiddle her earrings for hours. From LearnThat.org.
~ = tilde (aka "twiddle") ` = backtick what else do we have here. From Wordnik.com. [Original Signal - Transmitting Buzz] Reference
I don't think we can sit back and twiddle our thumbs. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Nov 4, 2007] Reference
"We cannot sit around and twiddle our thumbs," he told. From Wordnik.com. [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference
MR. MCCURRY: Order them to stay here and twiddle thumbs?. From Wordnik.com. [Press Briefing By Mike Mccurry] Reference
But Hillary can't just sit there and twiddle her thumbs. From Wordnik.com. [Top Dem Party Officials Send Sharply-Worded Email Demanding That Hillary Donors And Supporters Get Behind Obama] Reference
I stared down at my hand and tried to twiddle my fingers. From Wordnik.com. [Dead Beat]
Gi'ed a twiddle tae the string, put the fiddle to me chin. From Wordnik.com. [The Boy Who Put the Butter on the Old Man's Bow] Reference
You need to twiddle bit 5, 6, or 4 of location 0040: 0017. From Wordnik.com. [FAQ: Comp.Os.MSDOS.Programmer Part 2] Reference
What's he supposed to do, sit around and twiddle his thumbs?. From Wordnik.com. [Edwards Raising "Coulter Cash" Off Of "Faggot" Remark] Reference
All while the bureaucrats twiddle their pudgy little thumbs. From Wordnik.com. [Writers Campaign for Transparent Vote Counting] Reference
Gi'ed a twiddle tae the string and put the fiddle to me chin. From Wordnik.com. [The Boy Who Put the Butter on the Old Man's Bow] Reference
All while the bureaucrats twiddle their pudgy little thumbs. '. From Wordnik.com. [Can you spell DEEP TROUBLE?] Reference
When the menu comes, I twiddle my thumbs at the list of fancy dishes. From Wordnik.com. [Great, Green Gobs of Greasy, Grimy Gopher Guts] Reference
She saw him twiddle his fingers on the paddle and scooped up the water. From Wordnik.com. [The Impossible Man - Ep.17: Cherry Blossom Festival] Reference
These are not the kind of people going in there to twiddle their thumbs. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Dec 22, 2008] Reference
Twenty minutes in which they had nothing to do but twiddle their thumbs. From Wordnik.com. [Dance Of Death]
I am not willing to bargain away, pacify and twiddle with the right wing. From Wordnik.com. [Edwards Hits Obama For Reagan Comment] Reference
Mr. WEINTRAUB: Oh that's all right; I still think he'd twiddle his thumbs. From Wordnik.com. [Film Producer Jerry Weintraub Plays Not My Job] Reference
But to just sit there and twiddle our thumbs is not the right way to do it. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Sep 16, 2001] Reference
You think that there'd be somebody who would pay you to twiddle your thumbs?. From Wordnik.com. [Film Producer Jerry Weintraub Plays Not My Job] Reference
Standing with my hands in front of me I began to twiddle my fingers rapidly. From Wordnik.com. [Sixteen Months in Four German Prisons Wesel, Sennelager, Klingelputz, Ruhleben] Reference
"When I retire, I don't want to sit around and twiddle my thumbs," she says. From Wordnik.com. [Small City, Big Charms] Reference
“In a moment,” she thought, “he will twiddle those awful moustaches.”. From Wordnik.com. [Death of a Fool]
On to substance: if she wants to sit home and twiddle her thumbs, that's fine. From Wordnik.com. [Michelle Obama: "I'd Have To Think About" Supporting Hillary As Nominee] Reference
Ralph Nader calls them a "two-party (twiddle dee v. twiddle dum) dictatorship.". From Wordnik.com. [Choice in November - Nader v. Twiddle Dee or Twiddle Dum] Reference
Ralph Nader calls them a 'two-party (twiddle dee v. twiddle dum) dictatorship.'. From Wordnik.com. [OpEdNews - Quicklink: Choice In November - Nader v. Twiddle Dee or Twiddle Dum] Reference
He said that if he was in the army, he wouldn't be prepared to twiddle his thumbs. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Feb 22, 2007] Reference
He was, after all, the King; he could not afford to twiddle his thumbs indefinitely. From Wordnik.com. [Dragon on a Pedestal]
I really should retire, but what am I going to do, sit around and twiddle my fingers?. From Wordnik.com. [One Hot Baby] Reference
GRACE: And I guess the police are just going to twiddle their thumbs and let it happen?. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Nov 17, 2008] Reference
The other 529 members of Congress twiddle their thumbs awaiting the conclave's outcome. From Wordnik.com. [Michael Brenner: Health Reform the American Way] Reference
Obama doesn't know what to do till Jan 20th except twiddle his fingers or ... play hoops. From Wordnik.com. [Obama Injects Himself Into Big Georgia Senate Race] Reference
It is not from idleness, there are days together when I do nothing but twiddle my thumbs. From Wordnik.com. [Time Regained] Reference
To take home to me darling young wife (While I sing) cho: Twine, twine, twine, twiddle twine. From Wordnik.com. [Fagan the Cobbler] Reference
So, yet again, Israel loses the media war while its troops twiddle thumbs waiting to 'go in'. From Wordnik.com. [On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...] Reference
And whenever we selected a new default picture/iris setting, we had to twiddle the color again. From Wordnik.com. [Test: 1080p Projectors for Less, Pared-Down Multitools, VHS-to-DVD Converters] Reference
Why did they let Vick twiddle his thumbs and go, Hmmm, doo-doo, doo-doo, doo-doo, over the weekend?. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Aug 20, 2007] Reference
So that leaves just the feminist organizations to twiddle their thumbs right now over Pennsylvania. From Wordnik.com. [Who's Screwing America's Female Democrats?] Reference
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