Granted, Bush won't spend every hour twiddling his thumbs, regardless of which hobbies he picks up.

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Twiddling the zoom now only changes device volume, as it does anywhere except within Samsung's own camera app.

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"The business went from robust craziness to sitting around twiddling my thumbs in a couple of days, " he says.

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"There simply aren't that many Army-trained doctors sitting twiddling their thumbs, " he added.

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The problem for Transmeta is that Intel will not be twiddling its thumbs while mobile wireless appliances relegate the PC to the dustbin of computer history.

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When there is no competition for the labour as there are vast armies of it sitting around twiddling their thumbs and looking for something to do.

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"We're hardly sitting around twiddling our thumbs!"

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It has been clear for some time that, if Brazil is to continue to grow at a decent clip, the policy emphasis needs to shift from twiddling the dials of demand to tackling the high cost of supply.

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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.

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The wedding photos told their own story: Rose looking pert and joyous in a white half-circle hat, with a big coat hiding the bump because she'd fallen pregnant some months before, while George was in a bad suit twiddling his fingers, and with his eyes elsewhere.

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