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Wat (wie) is twiddled his thumbs - definitie

HAND GESTURE INDICATING APPROVAL
Thumbs-up; Thumbs-down; Thumbs down; Thumbs up (gesture); Thumbs up thumbs down; Thumbs Up; Thumbs Down; Thumbs up; 👍; 👎; Thumbs Signal; 🖒; 🖓; (y); (n); Thumbs signal; 👍🏻; 👍🏼; 👍🏽; 👍🏾; 👍🏿; 👎🏻; 👎🏼; 👎🏽; 👎🏾; 👎🏿; Thumb's up; Thumb's down; Thumbs-up sign
  • Buddhist]] monk giving the common thumb sign of approval
  • A thumb down sign of disapproval
  • A typical [[hitchhiker]]'s thumb gesture
  • Pollice Verso]]'' (1872) by [[Jean-Léon Gérôme]] is one of the sources of the "thumbs down" gesture in modern [[popular culture]], but is not based on historical data from Ancient Rome.
  • A truck driver giving a thumb sign in Britain, 1940

thumbs-down         
thumbs down         
also thumbs-down
If you say that someone gives a plan, idea, or suggestion the thumbs-down, you are indicating that they do not approve of it and refuse to accept it. (INFORMAL)
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Thumb signal         
A thumb signal, usually described as a thumbs-up or thumbs-down, is a common hand gesture achieved by a closed fist held with the thumb extended upward or downward in approval or disapproval, respectively. These gestures have become metaphors in , regardless of whether the gesture was made.

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Thumb signal

A thumb signal, usually described as a thumbs-up or thumbs-down, is a common hand gesture achieved by a closed fist held with the thumb extended upward or downward in approval or disapproval, respectively. These gestures have become metaphors in English: "The audience gave the movie the thumbs-up" means that the audience approved of the movie, regardless of whether the gesture was made.

Voorbeelden uit tekstcorpus voor twiddled his thumbs
1. Any man who has twiddled his thumbs waiting for his wife or opposite–sex partner to get ready to go out should not have been surprised by this.