twiddle one's thumbs

Be bored or idle, as in There I sat for three hours, twiddling my thumbs, while he made call after call. This expression alludes to the habit of idly turning one's thumbs about one another during a period of inactivity. [Mid-1800s]

Common Names:

Name	Pronounced	Usage
Veniamin	vye-nee-ah-MEEN, vee-nee-ah-MEEN	Russian
Rumena	-	Bulgarian, Macedonian
Osgar	-	Anglo-Saxon
India	IN-dee-ə	English
Garbi	-	Basque
Swift	[swift]