verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
thumb
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I sat there and twiddled my thumbs .
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The rest of us could just sit and twiddle our thumbs and drink iced coffee.
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Till then, its quarry sat twiddling his thumbs and not quite smirking.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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He kept twiddling the knobs on the radio trying to get a signal.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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He looked away and began twiddling with the curtain cord.
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He was twiddling a piece of cork and sucking on his empty pipe.
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He was twiddling his fingers and looking pleased with himself.
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I sat there and twiddled my thumbs.
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Somehow it sounds even more so coming from a ballerina sitting in full-length black mink coat and twiddling with diamond earrings.
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The rest of us could just sit and twiddle our thumbs and drink iced coffee.
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The world got clearer, as if some one were twiddling the focus of her retinae.
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Till then, its quarry sat twiddling his thumbs and not quite smirking.