"Well done," said Mourinho, raising his thumbs in semaphored sarcasm.

“干得真不赖，”穆里尼奥竖起大拇指，带着明显的讥讽口吻说道。

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"But you already know," said Dumbledore. He twiddled his thumbs together.

“其实你已经知道了。”邓布利多说。他旋弄着两个大拇指。

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He held the ring between his thumbs and index fingers and started pulling it gently.

他用拇指和食指拿着这枚戒指开始轻轻的往外摘。

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He was left with broken thumbs and had to have 11 stitches in his head.

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

FORBES: Magazine Article

Mozart twiddled his thumbs in Munich by writing the Piano Sonata in B-flat, K. 281.

NPR: Mozart's Job Hunting Dilemma

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.

ECONOMIST: George Papandreou, flouting Greek tradition