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Hello, and welcome to Speak Good English with Yishu. Now, our piece of authentic real English for today is 'twiddle your thumb'.This is an informal phrase means to wait around, doing nothing, until something happens.
Now, you can 'twiddle your thumb' later because we' ll look at some examples now.
- Where have you been? I've been twiddling my thumbs, waiting for you to come.
- Just twiddle your thumbs while we work out how the computer works.
- I've been twiddling my thumbs because I arrived early for the meeting.
This is Speak English with Yishu where we learn a simple but useful English expression every day. Today, we learned about 'twiddle your thumbs', which means doing nothing while waiting for something to happen. But we don't actually twiddle our thumbs when we have nothing to do or being bored, do we?
Do you like the phrase today? I am Yishu. See you tomorrow and bye for now!
Note: twiddle means move or fiddle
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