to relax and stop making the effort to do something
Any team who sits back gets punished.
But he has a tendency to sit back and not go for it at times.
But they are not going to sit back and be rubbished and have their work rubbished.
Don't sit back, get out there and fight for change.
It also gives me a chance to sit back and observe life.
It would be easy to suggest that people choose to sit back there because it makes them look important.
Just sit back and enjoy a feast of phenomenal wildlife footage before progress destroys it all.
Mum would be so disappointed if I just sat back and let life happen.
Now sit back and enjoy life on Mars.
Perhaps rather than sitting back and asking people to speak up, they might lean forward and listen.
She preferred to put together lunch parties of interesting people and sit back and let the interaction flow.
Sit back and enjoy the perplexed look on their faces as computer games crash.
So just sit back and wait for the pain.
So perhaps we ought just to sit back and enjoy it.
Take over the washing duties and run the vacuum round so she can sit back and relax.
That support lets you sit back and relax.
The athlete paused for many seconds and sat back in his chair.
The women sat back and enjoyed the whole thing.
Then the criminals just sit back and wait.
Then we sat back to enjoy our spoils.
Time to sit back and relax.
Watch the bird life or simply sit back and relax with a drink, enjoying the peaceful setting.
We can’t just sit back and let them win.
We certainly won't sit back and get the cigars out.
We had only five minutes to go against a side who were going to sit back and run down the clock.
You should just sit back and enjoy it.
sits back
sitting back
sat back
There is no origin for this phrasal verb
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