twiddling

• “For Cory, the constant hassle of devices and programs that don't work as reliably, and that require lots of finicky twiddling, is a negligible drain on the resources of his planet-sized brain.”

  MIND MELD: The Apple iPad: Sizzle or Fizzle?

• “So you know, there was a blocking rehearsal and all you guys had your partners and Ashley is standing there kind of twiddling her thumbs.”

  CNN Transcript Feb 25, 2006

• “To use these drills, rotate the point by "twiddling" the drill between the finger and thumb, making only one hole, and that in the centre of the egg.”

  Practical Taxidermy A manual of instruction to the amateur in collecting, preserving, and setting up natural history specimens of all kinds. To which is added a chapter upon the pictorial arrangement of museums. With additional instructions in modelling and artistic taxidermy.

• “I never play them live but love 'twiddling' and doing Tangs style sequencer driven stuff and, to be honest, I'm equally happy taking them apart and soldering.”

  Word Magazine - Comments

• “He planned to pass the time by "twiddling" his thumbs and playing with his dogs.”

  The Facts: News

• “It was supposed to be used by the U.S. to manage the dollar gold standard in the 20th century, but instead the principle of an automatic, non-discretionary system was abandoned in favor of Keynesian interest-rate twiddling.”

  Forbes: A Currency Board Linked To Gold

• “For the last few months, there was nothing to do but sit around twiddling our thumbs and impatiently counting the days until the baby pitched up.”

  The Guardian: Charlie Condou: The three of us

• “Pesident Obama is more then likely right unemployment will reach 10% or more this year and there is no hope for it to get better until our government officials understand that by letting so many items made in other countries in for free our working class people or going to be relaxed under a bridge somewhere twiddling or thumbs.”

  Obama: unemployment will likely hit double digits

• “You could be twiddling for a while, he wrote in the Telegraph.”

  The Guardian: Radio 4: The BBC won't hurt your beloved station | Vanessa Thorpe

• “I believe that we know all we need to know, so we should stop twiddling our thumbs.”

  The Huffington Post: Floyd J. Malveaux, M.D., Ph.D.: 25 Million and Counting

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