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Now people are saying it is to much too fast so lets just sit and twittle our thumbs while health care expenses get out of hand and let's blame Obama for everything that has happened while we are at it.

Tea Party Express rallies against 'big government' 2009

And these words come straight from my father: A welthy and proper man does not drink,smoke, or twittle their thumbs.

Gaming Addiction - Is You Kid Addicted to Games? | Sync Blog 2009

The rest of his statements are twittle and arrogant denial of the mess he helped create.

"Prince of Darkness Denies Own Existence." Ann Althouse 2009

I've been wondering about our current president for 5-6 years now. did't Quayle say about bush "its a terrible thing to loose one's mind"..he did mean bush didn't he...or was he talking about neo-cons who post such twittle on here.

President Bush will nominate a Muslim to represent the United States at the U.N. Ann Althouse 2007

Sir Edward, who resembles not Horry in his love for the twittle-twattle of the town, is a passable performer on the bass viol, and a hermit -- the Hermit of Pall

The Ladies A Shining Constellation of Wit and Beauty

-- We care not for one of your modern libraries, with its spruce shelves, filled with the sickly effusions of romantic triflers -- the solemn, philosophical nonsense of Arthur, the dandified affectation of Willis, and the clever but wearisome twittle-twattle of Dickens -- once great in himself, now living on the fading reputation of past greatness; we care not to enter

City Crimes or Life in New York and Boston George Thompson

Mind_ (1589) speaks of "twittle-twattles that I had learned in ale-houses and at the Theatre of Lanham and his fellows."

Shakespearean Playhouses A History of English Theatres from the Beginnings to the Restoration Joseph Quincy Adams 1913

The author of _Martin's Month's Mind_, in 1587, refers to "twittle twattle that I learned in ale-houses and at the Theatre of Lanam and his fellowes."

Shakespeare's Lost Years in London, 1586-1592 Arthur Acheson 1897

"I must go write idle things, and twittle twattle."

Essays Alice Christiana Thompson Meynell 1884

"I must go write idle things, and twittle twattle."

The Spirit of Place and Other Essays Alice Christiana Thompson Meynell 1884