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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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Noem, the former governor of South Dakota, was eating at the popular Capital Burger restaurant with her Gucci handbag sitting by her feet underneath her seat.

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“Instead it looks like Burgum plans to sit by the fire eating warm cookies while Elon Musk’s lackeys dismantle our national parks and public lands.”

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"The Department of Justice will not sit by when women are discriminated against in sports," US Attorney General Pam Bondi said on Wednesday.

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The last time I visited, I sat by the window, with the blue line buzzing overhead, and slipped one of those postcards into an envelope addressed to one of my closest friends in California.

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Suspicions first arose when Mr Johnston was seen sitting by himself while everyone partied around him.

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

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