Granted, Bush won't spend every hour twiddling his thumbs, regardless of which hobbies he picks up.
Mozart twiddled his thumbs in Munich by writing the Piano Sonata in B-flat, K. 281.
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.
That's probably not a big surprise, given his record of the past four years, and the fact that the voters turned thumbs down on Republican rule in the Senate (though the party did hold onto his Tennessee seat).
The last time we saw him Alfredo was still playing with his new phone, and gives the device two thumbs up.
His colleagues say that he decided nothing without getting the thumbs-up from the media regulator, Ofcom.
Cassidy had shaved his head clean to match Parmitano's look and got a thumbs-up from the Italian.
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.
Cashman, his leg crumpled from a sky diving mishap, played along, offering a thumbs-up from a wheelchair.
He had gotten a thumbs-up at a physical just a few days before, and his mood was happy, upbeat.
His task as a science-fiction writer was to imagine problems, to prick thumbs.
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.
Since the FDA gave the big thumbs up to a fully implantable artificial heart earlier this month, cardiac surgeon "Bud" Frazier and his team at the Texas Heart Institute aren't wasting any time in developing what they hope will be a fully-functioning, pulse-free artificial heart.
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