But don't worry — he won't be twiddling his thumbs.
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And until that day, we're stuck twiddling our thumbs. No!
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When really it's just twiddling a knob in verbal form.
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I would just be there kind of twiddling my thumbs.
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"I was twiddling my thumbs" after the caucuses, the person said.
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Coaches don't just sit back on the sidelines twiddling their thumbs.
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"Don't just sit in a room twiddling your thumbs," said Dudley.
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Because there's not much tension anymore, the twiddling is all very funny.
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But I think best while stroking my beard or twiddling a trinket.
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An apathetic generation, concluded the ministers, who returned to twiddling their thumbs.
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Those three aren't twiddling their thumbs while waiting for competition to arrive.
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The agents sat in bars and cafés twiddling their thumbs over smartphones.
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He sits in the ark for another seven days twiddling his thumbs.
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Still, there's a sense of sustained thumb-twiddling that starts with the script.
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Like twiddling your thumbs or watching your mother's Instagram story, but on national television.
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Until then, we'll all be here, twiddling our thumbs to the tune of "Me!"
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You could sort of imagine the entire Senate sitting, twiddling their thumbs and smirking.
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Several senators sat hunched with their arms crossed, twiddling pencils or rubbing their eyes.
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It's not as though all these Chinese investors are now suddenly twiddling their fingers.
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These campaigns-in-waiting aren't twiddling their thumbs, waiting for their candidates to jump in.
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Rick and Morty fans are twiddling their thumbs waiting for season four to be announced.
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Moreover, twiddling the dials of QE will not have the same impact as its introduction.
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"We're all fired up now, and twiddling our thumbs!" wrote one frustrated volunteer from Pennsylvania.
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Seriously, what else are you going to do while you're stuck inside twiddling your thumbs?
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It's pure mustache-twiddling, and the actress Ashlie Atkinson twirls with the best of them.
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This is the central banker's version of twiddling the bath taps, but on a national scale.
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You're not twiddling as much, or throwing stuff at the wall just to see what sticks.
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Sit around twiddling our thumbs and wait for next year when we won't have any leverage?
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But, that doesn't mean you have to spend it staring at a wall and twiddling your thumbs.
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"Villain" has a lazy association with that mustache-twiddling, cackling over a damsel on some train tracks shit.
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If you have wealth and no job, you sit there twiddling your thumbs and start drinking at lunchtime.
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Chen, 113, says he got the idea for NerdWallet "sitting around twiddling my thumbs," while out of work.
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Players began twiddling the tips of their fingers in Yates's direction, as if trying to cast a jinx.
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Instead of twiddling their thumbs at a public charging station while on a road trip, drivers can entertain themselves.
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This means that MPs on the "wrong" side might spend more than a decade twiddling their thumbs in opposition.
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Everyone around me is f—— like rabbits and/or popping out babies, and I'm sitting here twiddling my thumbs.
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With digital, anything goes, and in the hands of a bad engineer, too much knob-twiddling is a disaster.
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The live show has a lot of thumb-twiddling to do while it waits out the two hour time slot.
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"Otherwise I'd just be sitting down on the couch for four weeks, twiddling my thumbs, wondering what happened," Scott says.
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This means that Whittaker will either have to take another fight in the meantime, or wait around twiddling his thumbs.
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Once you get yourself off social media, you might be twiddling your thumbs wondering what to do with your time.
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"We're not going to stand around twiddling our thumbs," Rob Sands, CEO of Constellation Brands, told the Wall Street Journal.
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Early this morning, reports emerged that Ryan was planning, after weeks of thumb-twiddling, to kiss the ring and endorse Trump.
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That has been the case for many years, but the girls have not been twiddling their thumbs while she's been away.
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" If an assistant couldn't do it, he added, "I'll just be sitting on the bench twiddling my thumbs while the message plays.
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A digital-minimalist approach is never going to stick if you're left twiddling your thumbs for 23 percent of your waking hours.
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FastestVPN operates with 99.9% uptime, meaning you won't be twiddling your thumbs as you stare at a loading bar on your screen.
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By twiddling with knobs on modules, the user sculpts the video output in real-time, producing shifts in color, shape, and focus.
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Rather than twiddling their thumbs, they are out meeting people, taking classes, reading books, and expanding their repertoire of skills and knowledge.
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Since then, we've been twiddling our thumbs waiting for the royal couple to give us a glimpse of the little bundle of joy.
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You know, those people who can't stop playing with their hair: fluffing it, twiddling it, swinging it into the middle of your conversation.
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In the meantime Britain's millions of frustrated surfers, gamers and video-streamers, particularly those in rural areas, will be left twiddling their thumbs.
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Two VA IT workers who spoke on condition of anonymity said the lack of high-level leadership had left them twiddling their thumbs.
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And when it comes to the long term, Facebook's longevity looks less certain than Apple's - or even that of thumb-twiddling currency traders.
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It does not seem like a good idea for people to be working at full tilt one day and twiddling their thumbs the next.
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His technique is to spot people exhibiting self-comforting behaviors, like scratching their nose or twiddling their thumbs, which offset the discomfort of lying.
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Now they're laying concertina wire when they're not twiddling their thumbs, and Trump has pretty much stopped mentioning the supposed enemy heading their way.
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This death sets in play a baby-swapping plot hatched by the Brigadier, Kitty and Venetia's mustache-twiddling father, who needs a male heir.
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The Senate majority leader hasn't exactly been twiddling his thumbs since the Senate captured slight control of the chamber at the beginning of the year.
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What do you do when you know your job is unnecessary and you can no longer bear coming in and twiddling your thumbs all day?
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Since then, chronic labor disputes and deterioration of installations have decimated production and left a swollen payroll of employees twiddling their thumbs on the job.
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Whenever I find myself in need of a thumb-twiddling activity, I fire up Tinder and Bumble and aimlessly trawl through a bottomless pit of faces.
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"As much as [we] are into orthodox techno, we've never really been a big fan of the 'one dude twiddling a bunch of stuff,'" said Barclay.
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Cars are going to drive themselves sooner or later — so what will we do with all that extra commuting time so we're not stuck twiddling our thumbs?
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Many of the apps are huge, and on crowded broadband, I was more likely to leave them downloading overnight than sit at the computer twiddling my thumbs.
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Its unquantized bassline has a certain wiggling effect, which, paired with some dynamic knob twiddling in the harmonic mid-range, gives the track a compellingly squirmy quality.
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BECKY, NEW JERSEY The fact that "It Gets Better," as that moving video project about bullying attests, is no argument for twiddling our thumbs until it does.
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He can continue trying to avoid the topic, bragging about tax cuts, and twiddling his thumbs while hundreds of thousands of Americans' fates hang in the balance.
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At first glance, the movie didn't seem like much: a chaotic swarm of E. coli bacteria twiddling this way and that in a petri dish, seemingly at random.
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Their magnanimity was also a humiliation: Europe's second-largest economy was reduced to twiddling its thumbs in an anteroom while its neighbours decided its geopolitical and economic fate.
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So Morgan is left twiddling his thumbs while Rick leads a group of two dozen or so Alexandrians with assault weapons to hit Negan before Negan hits them.
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But with Georges St-Pierre challenging for the belt, and Romero presumably after him, it looks like Jacare is going to be twiddling his thumbs for a while.
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It's been 12 years since Chaka Khan released a studio album, but "I wasn't sitting, twiddling my thumbs," the singer known as the Queen of Funk said recently.
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But while we've been twiddling our thumbs waiting for the final season to begin, the cast has been doing just the opposite — Sophie Turner and Maisie Williams in particular.
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Jump to 10:20 in the video below to watch Ledecky finish, then just kind of sit around, twiddling her thumbs as she waits for everyone else to finish.
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The hands-on philosophy means you might be twiddling the knobs of a modular synth next to famous customers like Thom Yorke, which actually happened to one lucky customer.
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Aside from twiddling knobs at the campus TV station, his main preoccupation was creating psychedelic audio-visual shows as part of a performance-art combo called the 22 Timers.
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"A target 30 years in the future does not represent emergency climate action – our house is on fire and Europe is still twiddling its thumbs," she said in a statement.
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Bacsinszky, who reached the quarter-finals last year, had spent Tuesday and Wednesday twiddling her thumbs but finally took to Court Three to beat Thailand's Luksika Kumkhum 6-4 6-2.
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Whatever you were reconsidering, trying to figure out how to approach, or twiddling your thumbs about, is coming back into your life this month, as Mars powers through its retrograde zone.
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I don't know about you, but I've been sat twiddling my thumbs for a while, not quite knowing where to turn without a juicy Phoebe Waller-Bridge drama to keep me occupied.
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If Tony Ferguson gets the win, he could wind up adding another great name to his record and twiddling his thumbs while the UFC runs back Diaz—McGregor for the easy money.
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Still, we're sitting out here twiddling our thumbs, out in front of it all, because it's going to take another couple years for these guys to catch up to where we are.
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It's easy for aspiring musicians to buy gear online and even find video demos, but there's no substitute for the hands-on experience of actually twiddling the knobs on a vintage keyboard.
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And before people scream that 'there's a nurse for the baby,' there is, but that nurse has other responsibilities in the OR. They aren't either holding the baby or twiddling their thumbs.
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If you are a professional using power tools all day, you may want to pick up more batteries and chargers so you aren't left twiddling your thumbs when the batteries are recharging.
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In the interest of giving you something to do when you sit on the subway platform, twiddling your thumbs, here are the best celebrities to follow on Instagram for compelling, actually engaging stories.
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I was quite please with the drone's performance and I was especially enamored by the included Skycontroller 2, a handheld controller that lets you hold your phone while twiddling with the drone's joysticks.
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Murad, wearing a jersey of the Spanish football club Real Madrid, sat with his mother on the floor of a spartan trailer in al-Qadiya camp, twiddling his thumbs and resisting answering questions.
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The challenge is as old as the stoplight itself: How to time your pace through town so you hit green light after green light, nixing any time spent twiddling your thumbs at red lights.
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My "laziness" doesn't come from a place of ignorance, or aimlessness, or apathy toward my beauty routine — it's because I'm too busy getting shit done to spend an hour twiddling with a hot iron.
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Seeing Golub tiptoe along the edge of the pool surrounded by microphones, and at times twiddling electronic equipment, introduced a sense of precariousness to the performance that also made the music sound slightly ominous.
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He rebounded from losing his belt to Lima by stopping Chidi Njokuani and Vaso Bakocevic in the first round, but he seemed to be twiddling his thumbs while the title picture moved on without him.
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Still, he seemed to try to cheer up his wife, theatrically raising his handcuffed, clasped hands and twiddling his thumbs in her direction as if lampooning himself—look at me still doing this, even here!
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MOSUL, Iraq (Reuters) - Mohammed Fathi sat calmly on a plastic chair, twiddling his prayer beads as machine gun fire erupted from a neighbor's house, incoming bullets crackled overhead and helicopters strafed targets nearby in western Mosul.
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Leveling the playing field for women in tech is vital for emerging industries Despite the perceptions from many outside of the country, Iranians haven't been twiddling their thumbs, waiting idly all these years for sanctions relief.
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But over time, higher prices cause less demand from riders and more supply of drivers, so drivers end up spending more of their time twiddling their thumbs waiting for a gig, leaving hourly earnings little changed.
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The culmination of the Littlefinger plot was thrilling, but overall it was narrative thumb-twiddling, a way to take a character off the board while giving something for Arya and Sansa to do while Jon was away.
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Soli's miniature radars are small enough to fit into a smartwatch and can detect movements with sub-millimeter accuracy, allowing you to control the volume of a speaker, say, by twiddling an imaginary dial in mid-air.
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When I headed to H&R Block in late March to get an inside look into the day of a tax pro during busy season, I worried most of the day would be spent twiddling my thumbs.
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There it will be chilled to the deep-space temperatures at which it will have to work, and engineers will actually focus the telescope, twiddling the controls for seven actuators on each of the 18 mirror segments.
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After weeks of twiddling his thumbs, ignoring the steady degradation of the system, or quibbling about how many board seats he controls at the MTA, Cuomo is finally stepping up and owning the disaster that is the New York City subway.
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Her dragon Viserion would still be alive, but half her remaining human allies would be dead — and one of the season's most thrilling battle sequences would be replaced by her sitting around Dragonstone, twiddling her thumbs and counting up her losses.
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The attempt can often make them look like pianists trying to tune their instruments in the middle of a concert, constantly twiddling the lever to find the right pitch while the musicians around them play blissfully clear, pitch-perfect notes.
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LONDON (Reuters) - Laurel and Hardy, perhaps the greatest comedy double act in cinema history, returned to London on Sunday, twiddling their bowler hats to a delighted West End crowd as they arrived for the world premiere of the biopic "Stan & Ollie".
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There you are, sitting at home with literally nothing else to do, twiddling your thumbs as you wonder how many bowls of pasta is too many bowls of pasta, when it hits you — you haven't heard from your crush in… days?
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"When we talk about personnel, we don't mean advisers who just pay lip service to Hillary's bold agenda, coupled with a sigh, a knowing glance, and a twiddling of thumbs until it's time for the next swing through the revolving door," she said.
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They've got a lot of the same ideas as sex, like twiddling and flicking and frantic mashing and quick-time events where you have to aim for a tiny spot with split-second-perfect timing or you get shot in the head.
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The distance to the lunar surface isn't so far that controlling a rover directly from the surface is nearly impossible, like on Mars, but if it can go from here to there without someone in Houston twiddling a joystick, why shouldn't it?
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Dr. Parkinson emphasized that the study was a "first pass, a proof of concept," and that she and her colleagues still don't know what the neural response patterns mean: what attitudes, opinions, impulses or mental thumb-twiddling the scans may be detecting.
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The idea that age could be manipulated by twiddling a few control knobs ignited a research boom, and soon various clinical indignities had increased the worm's life span by a factor of ten and those of lab mice by a factor of two.
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And then when I think of how some people run (on their feet) in ultra marathons for over 24 hours (and over 100+ miles), I am put in my place because all I am doing is just twiddling my thumbs for that amount of time.
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"I don't think anyone who sits in the seat that I sit in is twiddling their fingers behind the scenes like Mr. Burns from 'The Simpsons,' saying, 'Ha, ha, ha, we get to do this,'" said Dave Tobias, vice president and dean for enrollment management.
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And while we're twiddling our thumbs waiting for the modern remake come December 25th, right now, it's not the movie that we're talking and Tweeting about: No, today all eyes are on the spectacular outfits the cast wore to celebrate this weekend's New York City premiere.
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One reason is that collaboration is much easier to measure than "deep work": any fool can record how many people post messages on Slack or speak up in meetings, whereas it can take years to discover whether somebody who is sitting alone in an office is producing a breakthrough or twiddling his thumbs.
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When we talk about personnel, we don't mean advisers who just pay lip service to Hillary's bold agenda, coupled with a sigh, a knowing glance, and the twiddling of thumbs until it's time for the next swing through the revolving door—serving government, then going back to the very same industries they regulate.
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She sucks the air out of every scene she's in simply by walking into the room; there are other funny people in this movie (Kristen Bell, Peter Dinklage, Kristen Schall, Timothy Simons, Tyler Labine), and they mostly stand a few feet away from her, twiddling their thumbs while she bounces obnoxiously around the room.
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"When we talk about personnel, we don't mean advisers who just pay lip service to Hillary's bold agenda, coupled with a sigh, a knowing glance, and a twiddling of thumbs until it's time for the next swing through the revolving door, serving government then going back to the very same industries they regulate," she said.
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"I know we used more than one acid line on a track before, but Hardfloor, the way they combined two or three different acid lines was incredible," DJ Pierre told RBMA in 2012 — high praise, indeed, coming from the guy whose twiddling fingers on Phuture's foundational "Acid Tracks" (1986) had minted the subgenre in the first place.
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" She describes the task as "an intimate act" at the pixel level — a phrase suggesting both the caressing of sculpture and the twiddling of sex: "Manipulating the touch of one woman's hand on another's shoulder is a way for me to access and merge my desire with figures which would have otherwise remained frozen in time.
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It's a tad more polished than their other work (undoubtedly as a result of Dan Swano's knob-twiddling skills) and the drums are clickier than I personally prefer, but Katina Culture's apocalyptic death riffs and Anthony Rezhawk's guttural roars are as potent as ever, and there's an interesting black metal element at play that I hope they explore more fully on the rest of the album.
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"When we talk about personnel, we don't mean advisers who just pay lip service to Hillary's bold agenda, coupled with a sigh, a knowing glance, and a twiddling of thumbs until it's time for the next swing through the revolving door," Warren said at an August speech in front of the Center for American Progress, previewing how she will set her own agenda moving forward.
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The song wasn't even finished when Mr Webb—who had made his name with songs such as "Up, Up and Away", and forged a partnership with Glen Campbell, one of the most popular artists of the 1960s and 1970s, with "By the Time I Get to Phoenix" in 1967—sent a rough cassette of the 16-line number to the recording studio where Campbell and his producer were twiddling their thumbs, waiting for more material.
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