"He's touchingly all thumbs with the colon and the semi colon, " he says.
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He had gotten a thumbs-up at a physical just a few days before, and his mood was happy, upbeat.
He repeatedly flashed a thumbs-up to onlookers taking pictures with iPhones.
He'll stop an intern struggling through a pile of carrots to show him how to hold his knife, he'll stick a spoon in a braise and give the cook a thumbs-up, he'll offer advice and jokes, whatever the situation demands.
"There simply aren't that many Army-trained doctors sitting twiddling their thumbs, " he added.
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He and Cabrera flashed a thumbs-up to each other after their shots into the 10th hole in the playoff, and they walked off the 10th green with their arms around each other when it was over.
Mr Smith said that as he left the flat on the later occasion Mr Coats made a thumbs up sign and gestured as if he had something in his pocket.
His colleagues say that he decided nothing without getting the thumbs-up from the media regulator, Ofcom.
Ms. BARKER: He kind of gave a cautious thumbs-up to the whole meeting.
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Nor was he taking any chances on a thumbs-down from New Yorkers.
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Elected to parliament in 1981 to a safe seat in the north-west Peloponnese, grandpa's birthplace, he spent several years twiddling his thumbs before his father gave him a junior ministerial post, as official link with Greece's large, mostly American and Australian, diaspora.
Mr Daft deserves a cautious thumbs-up for what he has done so far, but he knows the real test is about to begin.
Granted, Bush won't spend every hour twiddling his thumbs, regardless of which hobbies he picks up.
He told the court he took a photograph of Mr Barker making a thumbs-up sign next to the girl.
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"The business went from robust craziness to sitting around twiddling my thumbs in a couple of days, " he says.
He still struggles to understand why the Broadway world often thumbs its nose when a theater song has commercial success.
Company attorney Jay Dudley thumbs through a thick brochure of financial documents that he says have already been turned over to the city.
Asked what he thought of Romney's speech, Adelson gave a thumbs-up.
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"He came to the first day on set, and that was a little nerve-wracking, but it then became comforting because as we would be between takes he would, you know, be giving you a little thumbs-up, " Groff recalled.
At the applause, I assume he's having fun with me, so I give him a thumbs up and turn my attention back to the Tame Impala, trying to remember if I recharged my Garmin running watch, wondering if my wife actually picked up dinner or if she was being sarcastic when she said, "I got it, " during an afternoon phone call between meetings.
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He went through the whole meeting with fancied rides and didn't ride a winner until he eventually won the County Hurdle - the last race of the meeting - on Thumbs Up.
For lesser appointments the Committees want an "effective veto" and an assurance that ministers will not blithely ignore a thumbs down from a committee, as Ed Balls did when, as Children's Secretary he went ahead with the appointment of Maggie Atkinson as Children's Commissioner despite an attempted veto by his select committee.
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