Sentences with phrase «hours twiddling»

Spending hours twiddling dials on the boiler is your new hobby.

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It is not to be a day where you sit around the house, twiddling your thumbs, and watching the hours slowly tick by.

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.

After 3 years at Nottingham studying physics, I'd come to the conclusion that, though the general gist of my course amazed and fascinated me, the nitty gritty of the mathematics and the hours sitting in a lab twiddling dials were really not for me.

It's well over an hour before Polonius is killed, with Ophelia essentially offstage twiddling her thumbs.

We make our way to Miller Park, home of the Milwaukee Brewers, with a couple hours to spare, fearing we'd be twiddling our thumbs until the game began.

Whilst i can understand there idea behind this i think the restriction is way too much for legit players and its only going to further frustrate people that want to play this game in the way its meant to be played, act one can be cleared in only a few hours, so legit players just sit and twiddle there thumbs for a further 2 days?

Today's open worlds may bill themselves as «living» environments, but it's hard to agree with that claim when those worlds are content to linger indefinitely, twiddling their thumbs while you fritter away the hours grinding out upgrades or chasing down every last sidequest.

But that doesn't mean you twiddle your thumbs or spend hours on Pinterest: You're on your time, and time really is money when you're living in a billable hours world.

We've worn something just a touch too formal on our first day and twiddled our thumbs for three hours when your line manager forgets to give you, the new intern, another task to do.