Adam Conover

On 'Adam Ruins Everything' we do the broadest sketch comedy possible. We do stuff where you can see it immediately and know it's a joke - characters in big silly costumes; here's Uncle Sam and he's twiddling his fingers saying, 'Oh, I'm naughty.

American Comedian

Emily Atack

I got really bored of sitting around waiting for work or for the next movie to come along that only 100 people would see. I got bored of being skint, of twiddling my thumbs, wondering how to take my life to the next stage.

British Actress

Gina Bellman

There is nothing worse than sitting in the make-up trailer knowing that the whole crew are twiddling their thumbs waiting for you to change your hair from straight to curly or up to down. Sometimes it can't be avoided.

New Zealander Actress

Tansy Rayner Roberts

History is not a long series of centuries in which men did all the interesting/important things and women stayed home and twiddled their thumbs in between pushing out babies, making soup and dying in childbirth.

Australian Writer

Sara Paxton

I love watching amazing actors and actresses that you can't take your eyes off of because everything they are doing - even if it is just twiddling their thumbs or scratching their eye - it's just interesting.

American Actress

John Virgo

When my father retired, all he did was twiddle his thumbs. I don't want to go down that road. As long as I'm still in demand, I'll work.

English Celebrity

Matt Bomer

I'm blessed to have a family, so it's not like I'm twiddling my thumbs. When I'm not working, that's where all my attention comes.

American Actor

Mel Brooks

A cinema villain essentially needs a moustache so he can twiddle with it gleefully as he cooks up his next nasty plan.

Sarah Dessen

I can't sit and twiddle my thumbs. I have to start writing even if it's miserable some days.

American Writer

George Perez

I always rate a convention by the lack of blisters from twiddling my thumbs.

Typically implies small and repetitive movements with no specific goal or end point.

Physical Movement

Indicates a person's distraction or deep thought when done unconsciously.

Involves Focus

Can describe fine-tuning something delicate or complex.

Subtle Adjustment

Often used to express boredom or the feeling of time passing slowly.

Idle Waiting

Can be a metaphor implying lack of work, usefulness, or purpose.

Metaphorically Idle

Refers to quickly changing settings on a device using a control like a knob or dial.

Control Adjustment

Implies a controlled and precise manipulation.

Precise Movement

Casual term for making minor adjustments or changes in a computing context.

Informal Computing

Suggests trial-and-error method to achieve desired results, especially in tech.

Experimentation

 delivering aid to other Africans it is Africans who are responsible for getting that ate out who do they go to interview what I like to call the floor and savior as somebody recently wrote according to the the Western news media if Africans are in bad situations like Wars or famines they can just twiddle their

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 little red light and one of the hummingbirds a hummingbird in the forest thought oh that's a nice bright light that's be a flower gonna get some nectar so this guy's blind to what's going on he's flying through the thing he's twiddling or to loom this thing land

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 so that when we came home from school at 3:30 in the afternoon, we would huddle beside the TV, and rather like safe-crackers, we would twiddle with the volume control knob on the TV so it was almost inaudible. And at times, when we were like this,

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 like they're going to be twiddling their thumbs there's plenty of other resources here than to tap into there's berry patches and there's other species of salmon spawning a little bit further downstream stream and the bear behind us

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