Crossword Clue: Twiddling one's thumbs
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Possibly related crossword clues for "Twiddling one's thumbs"
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- ___ chatter (casual conversation)
- ___ chatter (meaningless conversation)
- ___ chatter
- "___ hands are the devil's playground"
- "___ hands are the devil's playthings"
- "___ hands are the devil's tools"
- "___ hands are the devil's workshop"
- ___ rich
- ___ talk
- ___ speculation (guesswork)
- ___ threat
- Barely run, as an engine
- Barely run the engine
- An anagram for deli
- "____ Hands"
- Baseless, as a threat
- Baseless, as rumors
- Baseless
- Be a layabout
- Be in neutral
- Be inactive
- Between activities
- Between assignments
- Between chores
- Between engagements
- Between films
- Between gigs
- Between jobs
- Between positions
- Between tasks
- "As ___ as a painted ship . . . "
- Asleep, say
- At a red light, perhaps
- At a standstill
- At ease
- At leisure
- "At liberty," to performers
- At liberty
- At rest
- Auto mechanic's concern
- AIM status when you've been online but away from the computer for a while
- Aimless; pointless
- Aimless
- Awaiting a task
- Awaiting an assignment
- Awaiting orders, say
- Away from a chat program, say
- All the unemployed and some of the rich
- "Am I vital / If my heart is ___?" (Moses Sumney)
- Comedian Eric
- Fallow
- Cause a screen saver to start
- Insubstantial
- Causing a screen saver to start
- Dawdle
- Daydreaming, say
- Internet chat status
- Far from busy
- Far from frantic
- Frequent Cleese co-star
- Fritter away time
- Frivolous
- Groundless
- Groundless, as a threat
- Groundless, as rumors
- Groundless, as speculation
- Groundless.
- Fruitless
- Furloughed
- Futile
- Gainless
- Gather dust
- Gathering dust, e.g.
- Gathering dust, so to speak
- Gathering dust
- Empty, as a threat
- Empty, as talk
- Empty, as threats
- Empty (threat)
- Empty
- Chilling out
- Dilly-dallying
- Dillydally
- Hang around
- Hang out
- Hanging around
- Hanging out, say
- Hanging, so to speak
- Hardly industrious
- Hardly working
- Butt-on-couch
- Harmless, as threats
- Disengaged at the moment
- Disengaged
- Enjoying a day off
- Enjoying some downtime
- Enjoying some time off
- Have the car running in place
- Having a day off
- Having an off-day on the schedule
- Having no basis
- Having nothing to do
- Having some downtime
- Eric featured in "Monty Python's Personal Best"
- Eric of Monty Python
- Eric of "Monty Python and the Holy Grail"
- Eric of "Monty Python" who cowrote the musical "Spamalot"
- Eric of "Monty Python"
- Eric of "Monty Python's Flying Circus"
- Eric of "Spamalot"
- Having the day off
- Eric who starred in "Life of Brian" and who cocreated "Spamalot"
- Eric who wrote the book for "Spamalot"
- Having time on one's hands
- Do nothing
- Immobile
- Cleese cohort
- Cleese colleague
- Doing nothing
- Doing plenty of nothing
- Doing zip
- In a hammock, maybe
- In between gears
- In between jobs
- In couch-potato mode
- In mothballs
- Go nowhere while the engine's running
- Go nowhere with the engine running
- In neutral
- In screen saver mode, say
- Jobless
- In the theatre, at liberty.
- Dormant
- Inactive Tool song?
- Inactive
- Inconsequential
- Going nowhere, not fast
- Going nowhere
- Currently doing nothing
- Indolent
- Ineffective
- Goofing off
- Dally
- Just chillin'
- Just chilling
- Just hanging around
- Just hanging out
- Just hanging, so to speak
- Just loafing around
- Just loafing
- Just lounging around
- Just lying around
- Just sit there
- Just sitting around
- Just sitting, say
- Just sitting there
- Just sitting
- Just twiddling ones thumbs
- Just twiddling one's thumbs
- Just twiddling the thumbs
- Fainéant
- Insignificant, as chatter
- Insignificant, as gossip
- Insignificant
- Pink-slip
- Not up to anything
- Not up to much
- Not very active
- Like chitchat, often
- Like chitchat
- Still
- Not working at the moment
- Not working today
- Not working
- Like Coleridge's "painted ship"
- Like computers with screen savers running
- Vain
- Like doodling
- Keep the car running
- Keep the car warm in the driveway
- Keep the car warm
- Keep the engine running in park
- Keep the engine running
- Keep the motor humming
- Like hands co-opted by the Devil?
- Like hands the devil uses
- Like hands, when not rocking
- Mothballed
- Like inconsequential talk
- Nothing doing?
- Nothing-doing?
- Motionless
- Like lame threats
- Like loafers
- Otiose
- Veg out
- Vegging out
- Out of a job
- Out of action
- While (away)
- Like many rumors
- Out of service
- Kick back
- Kicked back
- Like meaningless chatter
- Out of work, e.g.
- Out of work
- Like much chatter
- Like much chitchat
- Move slowly
- Kill time
- Killing time
- Purposeless
- Kind of chat
- Kind of chatter
- Kind of curiosity
- Put in neutral
- "The devil finds work for ___ hands"
- Kind of fancy
- Like some chatter or threats
- Like some chatter
- Put it in neutral
- Kind of hands said to be the devil's playthings
- Kind of hands that are "the devil's playthings"
- Mark time
- Like some fears
- Like some gossip or hands
- Like some gossip or rumors
- Like some hands or threats
- Like some hands
- Oasis "The Importance of Being ___"
- Marking time
- Kind of rumor
- Kind of speculation
- Like some rock star threats
- Like some rumors
- Kind of talk
- Kind of thoughts
- Kind of threat
- Python named Eric
- Like some speculation
- Like some talk
- Like some thoughts
- Like some threats
- Like someone taking five
- Shelved
- Shiftless; slothful
- Shiftless
- Pal of Palin
- Like unused studio
- Of no importance
- Of no use
- Off from work
- Off-line, perhaps
- Knock about
- Off the job
- Off
- With nothing to do
- Trifling
- With time to kill
- Wait at a light, perhaps
- Wait at a stop sign, say
- Wait at the light
- Wait at the red light
- Wait curbside, e.g.
- Wait curbside, often
- Wait curbside
- Wait for a green light, say
- Wait for a green light
- Wait for a light, perhaps
- Wait for a light
- Wait for green
- Wait for the green light
- Wait for the green
- Wait for the light to change
- Wait for the light
- Wait for the start of a drag race
- Wait for the start of the drag race
- Wait in neutral
- Wait in traffic
- Wait to drag race
- Wait while running?
- Park with the engine running
- Without a job
- Waiting around
- Waiting at a light
- Waiting at a stoplight, probably
- Meaningless
- Waiting for an assignment
- Waiting for the next task, say
- Waiting
- Pointless
- Without foundation
- Without purpose
- Without work
- Without worth
- Trivial, as chatter
- Trivial, as talk
- "Trivolous"
- Run a car in neutral
- Run a car without moving
- Run at a red light
- Run at a red light?
- Run at the curb
- Run at the light
- Run at the light
- Run but go nowhere
- Run, but go nowhere
- Run, but not move
- Run in a traffic jam?
- Run in neutral gear
- Run in neutral, perhaps
- Run in neutral
- Run in place?
- Run in place
- Run out of gear
- Run while standing still
- Run while standing
- Run while stopped
- Run without moving
- Truant
- Running in neutral
- Running motionless
- Running, or not?
- Laid-off
- Laid off
- Lallygag
- Member of Cleese and Chapman's cohort
- Loaf at work
- Loaf
- Loafing around
- Loafing
- Loiter
- Loitering, e.g.
- Loitering, say
- Lollygag
- On a break, say
- On a break
- On break, say
- On break
- On hiatus
- On one's duff
- On one's keister
- On strike
- On the couch
- On the disabled list, say
- Pass the time
- On the sidelines
- Needing something to do
- Potentially going into screen saver mode
- Recumbent or truant
- Recumbent
- Neutral state?
- Lay off
- Lay off, as workers
- Laze about
- Laze
- Lazing about
- Lazing
- Lazy Eric?
- Lazy
- Practicing sloth
- Lounge
- Lounging around
- Lounging
- Leaning on one's shovel, perhaps
- Mindless, like chatter
- Leave in neutral
- Leave the engine running
- Relaxing
- Leisured
- Lying about
- Lying around
- Remain in neutral
- No longer working
- Onetime cohort of Cleese, Palin et al.
- Onetime Palin collaborator
- Nonproductive
- Nonworking
- Resting
- Opposite of busy
- Monty Python alum Eric
- Monty Python alumnus
- Monty Python member and composer Eric
- Monty Python member and funny song guy Eric
- Monty Python member Eric
- Monty Python member
- Monty Python performer
- "Monty Python" regular
- "Monty Python" star
- "Monty Python" troupe member
- Monty Python troupe member
- Monty Python's Eric ___
- Monty Python's Eric
- "Monty Python's Flying Circus" comic Eric
- Not active
- Not at all serious, as threats
- Not at it
- Not at work
- Not being active
- Not being used
- Like a bump on a log
- Not busy at all
- Not busy
- Not currently occupied
- Like a couch potato
- Not doing anything
- Not doing much of anything
- Not doing much right now
- Not doing much
- Not doing too much
- Like a drone
- Not employed
- Not engaged, say
- Not engaged
- Not even part-time
- Not even slightly busy
- Like a flâneur
- Like a groundless rumor
- Not functioning
- Not going
- Not going anywhere
- Like a layabout
- Like a loafer
- Like a loiterer
- Like a MOMA ship
- Not in action
- Not in drive or reverse
- Not in gear
- Not in harness
- Not in motion
- Not in operation
- Not in use
- Like a "painted ship"
- Not kept busy
- Not lifting a finger
- Like a ship at the Tate
- Like a slacker between albums
- Not moving
- Not occupied
- Not on the schedule
- Not operating
- Not otherwise engaged
- Not playing this week
- Not playing today
- Not playing
- Not productive
- Not scheduled to compete
- Not scheduled to play, as a pro team
- Not scheduled to play
- Like an ineffective threat
- Like band between albums, perhaps
- Warming the bench, maybe
- Shut down
- Word before "gossip" or "chatter"
- Word before gossip or chatter
- Sideline
- Word for the rich
- Turned off
- Word from Old English for "useless"
- Waste gas
- Waste time
- Wasted
- Wasting time
- "Spamalot" co-creator Eric
- "Spamalot" co-creator
- "Spamalot" creator Eric
- "Spamalot" lyricist Eric
- "Spamalot" lyricist
- Word with curiosity or speculation
- Word with gossip or chatter
- Word with "gossip" or "chatter"
- Twiddle one's thumbs
- Twiddling one's thumbs
- Twiddling thumbs
- Sans employment
- Word with thought or threat
- Spin the wheels
- Type of chatter
- Type of curiosity or speculation
- Type of curiosity
- Type of gear or pulley
- Sit at a four-way stop, say
- Sit at a light
- Sit at a red light, say
- Sit at a red light
- Sit at a stoplight
- Sit at a traffic light, perhaps
- Save the V-8 juice?
- Sit in neutral
- Sit in park, say
- Sit in traffic, say
- Sit in traffic
- Sit with the engine in neutral
- Type of rumor
- Work-shy
- Thing to do at a red light
- Sitting around doing nothing
- Sitting around twiddling one's thumbs
- Sitting around with nothing to do
- Sitting around
- Sitting by
- Sitting it out
- Sitting on one's hands
- Sitting on your butt
- Sitting with the motor running
- Sitting
- This isn't working?
- Worthless
- Unavailing
- Unbusy
- Take it easy
- What a getaway car may be waiting in
- What a successful rocker can be?
- Taking a break from work
- Taking a break
- Taking it easy
- Unemployed
- Unengaged
- Stagnate
- Stagnating
- Unfounded
- Unfounded, as gossip
- Unfounded, as rumors
- Unfounded.
- Thumb-twiddling
- Standing by
- Tick over (of engine)
- Tick over
- Slothful
- Tarry
- Sluggish
- What Oasis stressed "The Importance of Being"
- Unmeaningful
- Unoccupied?
- Unoccupied
- Unproductive
- Unused
- "Tears, ___ tears, I know not what they mean": Tennyson
- Up to little
- Up to nothing
- Stay in neutral
- Stay neutral?
- Useless, as chatter
- Useless
- Senseless
Recent Usage of Twiddling one's thumbs in Crossword Puzzles
We track a lot of different crossword puzzle providers to see where clues like "Twiddling one's thumbs" have been used in the past.
Here are all of the places we know of that have used Twiddling one's thumbs in their crossword puzzles recently:
- WSJ Daily - Oct. 10, 2020
- WSJ Daily - Oct. 3, 2020
- Universal Crossword - Aug. 3, 2020
- WSJ Daily - July 13, 2020
- WSJ Daily - June 30, 2020
- Universal Crossword - Dec. 19, 2019
- Newsday - Oct. 29, 2019
- WSJ Daily - April 19, 2019
- USA Today - Dec. 12, 2018
- USA Today - Nov. 1, 2018
- USA Today - Aug. 14, 2018
- Pat Sajak Code Letter - July 21, 2018
- Pat Sajak Code Letter - Feb. 9, 2018
- Pat Sajak Code Letter - Jan. 15, 2018
- USA Today - Dec. 12, 2017
- USA Today - Sept. 22, 2017
- Penny Dell Sunday - July 23, 2017
- Newsday - May 25, 2017
- Chronicle of Higher Education - Nov. 25, 2016
- WSJ Daily - Oct. 6, 2016
