Today’s “Phrase of the Day” is “twiddle one’s thumbs“ and its meaning is “to do nothing (particularly when waiting for something to happen); be idle, be unoccupied, sit around, kill time, waste time; (Thumb twiddling/twisting is an activity done by someone when he/she is sitting idle with fingers interlocked and the thumbs circle around)”.
Example Sentence: The writing is on the wall (a warning/indication that something bad/unpleasant is going to happen). A nation’s standing in the pecking order (hierarchy) based only on soft power is ephemeral. As the West twiddles its thumbs, ‘Ukraine’ proves that hard power dictates terms in geopolitics. Thucydides (Greek historian) understood it in Fifth Century BC and we are in for a rough time if we do not get it even now.
This word is present in The Hindu article The war’s cold facts and what India needs to glean and click here to read it.
Courtesy: The Hindu
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