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Idioms and Phrases

Also, sit idly by . Refrain from interfering, remain passive, as in I can't just sit by and let her get in trouble .
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Example Sentences

But the modern ghosts are not satisfied with such sit-by-the-fire jobs as these.

Even the daughter in Alice Sit-by-the-Fire, with her views based on melodrama concerning her mother, was not wholly extravagant.

Mary hates to leave home too; she's a regular sit-by-the-fire!

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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023

Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.

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