sit back
— phrasal verb with sit uk/sɪt/us/sɪt/verb present participle sitting, past tense and past participle sat
(COMFORTABLE)
to sit comfortably with your back against the back of a chair
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Sitting and standing
- akimbo
- astride
- attention
- bestride
- cross-legged
- crouch
- four
- pew
- plop
- plump (sb/sth) down
- rampant
- seated
- seating
- sit sth out
- stand
- stand round
- strike
- take a pew! idiom
- take the weight off your feet/legs idiom
- weight
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Reclining
(WAITING)
informal to wait for something to happen without making any effort to do anything yourself:
You can't just sit back and wait for job offers to come to you.
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Waiting
- await
- hang
- hang around (somewhere)
- hang on
- hang round (somewhere)
- hold
- lounge
- mark time idiom
- mill
- mill around
- queue
- ready
- sit
- stand
- wait in
- wait list
- wait on sth
- wait sth out
- wait up
- wait list
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