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"Twiddling your thumbs" nghĩa là gì?
03 Oct, 2020
"Twiddling your thumbs" = vặn vẹo ngón tay cái -> nghĩa là không có việc gì làm, nhàn rỗi, chờ đợi điều gì xảy ra.
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You probably have some extra time on your hands these days. Instead of twiddling your thumbs or binge-watching a TV series, use this to your advantage.
“This is where the challenge is,” said Adam of the $402,000 cost. “We’ve had comments like, ‘Why don’t you do something? You’re twiddling your thumbs. Why don’t you just take it down?’ The Land Bank doesn’t have $402,000 to take that building down, so we have been looking at every conceivable (có thể dùng được) option that we have to fund the demolition (phá hủy).”
I try and get on board and think positive (tích cực), and it only takes a few hours of you sitting here twiddling your thumbs before you realize OK, now I’m sitting here doing nothing. Is anybody going to come in?
“You guys must be twiddling your thumbs these days, huh?” This was the ill-informed (không thực tế, không có đầy đủ thông tin về tình hình hiện tại) question posed to me by one of our outpatient primary care doctors moonlighting as a hospitalist in this “all-hands-on-deck” time of ours. I looked at him and only laughed.
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