fidget

fidget about

To compulsively move around in a nervous or restless manner. Mary, stop fidgeting about like that and sit still! My mother always fidgets about the house when we have company.
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fidget around

To compulsively move around in a nervous or restless manner. Mary, stop fidgeting around like that and sit still! My mother always fidgets around the house when we have company.
See also: around, fidget

fidget spinner

A small propeller-shaped toy designed to be spun atop one's fingertip. Ostensibly a device to help people with attention deficit disorder or attention deficit hyperactivity disorder increase their focus, the fidget spinner became popular with schoolchildren and those who use it to try to ease anxiety or restlessness. Ever since I got my son a fidget spinner, he's had an easier time paying attention in class, but the school is considering banning them as a distraction.
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fidget with (something)

To compulsively fiddle with something in a nervous or restless manner. Mary, stop fidgeting with your necklace like that and sit still!
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Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

fidget around

to wiggle and twitch nervously. The child sat there, fidgeting around for over ten minutes. Please don't fidget around so.
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fidget with something

to play with something nervously. Please don't fidget with your zipper. Carl is always fidgeting with his left ear.
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McGraw-Hill Dictionary of American Idioms and Phrasal Verbs.
See also:
  • fidget about
  • fidget around
  • fidget with
  • fidget with (something)
  • Nellie
  • Nelly
  • nervous Nellie
  • like a monkey on a stick
  • hold still
  • have a fix of (something)
References in periodicals archive
Bydd elfennau hudolus syrcas fodern Fidget Feet yn sicr o fesmereiddio a chreu syndod i'r gynulleidfa yn y Pafiliwn.
No, fidget spinners are aids to concentration, originally used by fraught businessmen as stress-busters.
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The team injected a drop of blood in each of the sealed tiny tubes and taped the tubes to the three prongs of a fidget spinner.
The fidget spinners are visually distracting for the user as well as the surrounding people, since hand-eye coordination is required to rotate and balance it on the thumb.
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Citing reported incidents, the FDA said in an advisory that fidget spinners - small, ball-bearing devices that users can rotate between their fingers - might lead to choking incidents.
Just when we thought the fidget spinner craze was ready to die, Hong Kong-based company, (http://chillimobiles.com/products/k188/) Chilli International has released a product that's sure to be the top of every gadget-obsessed kid's Christmas list: the Fidget Spinner phone.
The company believes their Widget Writer Fidget Pen will help them.
"Fidget is the best service dog we have in our unit who has a great track record since he was assigned to the advance search and explosive section," said K9 Unit Leader Captain Marwan Jassim.
Fidget spinners have been regarded as among the "must have toys of 2017" but many people, including some experts, remain divided over whether they are beneficial or harmful, especially to children.
The BBC's Watchdog programme, which aired on Wednesday night, investigated some of the fidget spinners being sold to children across the country.
In a recent report, Russia-24, a state-owned news channel, suggests that fidget spinners are being used by Russian opposition parties in order to recruit young people.
Fidget spinners are blowing up around the world, but they're not here to stay.
Whirling fidget spinners invaded classrooms across the country this past spring, but with many schools banning them as a distraction, their future as a potential remedy for students with attention difficulties is in doubt.