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sit back

verb

intr, adverb to relax, as when action should be taken
many people just sit back and ignore the problems of today

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Goldsmith replied, “Does that mean we have to sit back and do nothing?”

Or, even better, maybe we can literally just sit back and let language do what it does best: change.

In the latest movie, we are invited to sit back and enjoy the three central performances rather than be swept along by the drama.

It was fun to shoot because I just got to sit back and watch for most of it.

If the intruders are deemed hostile, the operator can engage manually or sit back and let the robot engage.

It is not fair that the parents should sit back and shift to the school the whole responsibility for the future citizen.

If the boys had lived theyd have been able to run the business and let me sit back and just give them a hand now and then.

They had danced but little, preferring to sit back and criticize.

There was no howdah, and it was a difficult feat to sit back of the mahout.

Let good sense sit back and look on, and methinks it would be not a little disgusted.

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