Sentences with phrase «back twiddling»

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And maybe it does, but that doesn't mean that we can sit back, twiddle our thumbs, and watch it all with glee on the evening news.

Miso is a funky Japanese fermented soybean paste that's probably been patiently loitering in the back of your fridge for months twiddling its thumbs, waiting for you to realize its worth.

I do not care if we have 3 CBs all sitting back and twiddling their thumbs because our CM is dominating the game, it offers security so we can press harder for more goals.

After all, Wake and Florida merely twiddled their thumbs for far many more hours than actually participating in baseball games that weekend, and Singer wouldn't come back on after the game resumed.

If you're sat twiddling your thumbs waiting for Formula 1 to come back then Mercedes may have found something to keep you amused, for a while at least.

With all of Liverpool's competitors strengthening, investing, and pushing onwards, new competitors emerging, and transfer targets being of a questionable level or rebutting Liverpool FC's approaches, all whilst the club twiddles its proverbial thumbs — expecting Klopp to deliver on his promise with his current squad — is the prospect of returning Liverpool back to the top level of English and European football the greatest challenge in world football?

It is an emergency not something to sit back and twiddle our thumbs over.

«If you think you have a good idea, you're not going to sit back and twiddle your thumbs,» he said.

Twiddling the dials on a lab instrument back and forth, the men had to mix red and green light so that the result, to their eyes, matched a standard shade of yellow.

I thought I'd be too busy to come up with a recipe for this week since I'm back on hospital service through this and next week and, well, there's rarely ever time to twiddle my thumbs while I'm on service.

Nintendo hasn't sat back and twiddled thumbs while the release schedule thins.

we are jumping ahead in leaps and bounds while they sit around twiddling their thumbs are begging us to slow down and backtrack back to their level of not moving ahead.

I guess I'll twiddle my thumbs in the meantime while CreateSpace sends it back to me, free of charge.

As you sit twiddling your thumbs, waiting months for that agent to get back to you — or perhaps papering your office walls with yet another rejection letter — you might start to seriously consider taking the self - publishing route.

Though I twiddle and stroke the beard compulsively, in fact I don't know what it looks like, as I've been doing my best to avoid mirrors and reflective surfaces of any kind out of fear of what I'm liable to see staring back at me.

So now that you're once again twiddling your thumbs awaiting something to drag you back into the dragon infested realm, Bethesda thought it was a good time to announce the new chunk of downloadable content, titled Hearthfire.

However, those nasty ol' Decepticons have been pretty busy and Megatron certainly hasn't been twiddling his thumbs, instead he's been enacting a plan to get himself powered back up as well as unleash a kick - ass new foe into the war.

And even when we knelt and watched a shiny tumblebug rolling, rolling, turning upside down and pushing with her hind feet onward the perfect globe of shit she'd made, and we saw her pause, and scurry round to where she'd dug the hole just big enough, measuring with antennæ twiddling, then shove and shove the ball down and in, and go in after — I think we didn't know that she'd be laying eggs just where each hatchling's mouth would find a feast, before she came back out, retraced her trail and started to shape another global deal almost worthy of Ares, money - changer of dead bodies.

If twiddling the knobs made the machine go haywire, put the knobs back to where they were.

There was a lever, so I pushed it down and headed back inside to twiddle some knobs.

So I turned it back on and went back inside to twiddle the knobs.