to delay dealing with something
Anything rather than sit on your own in an office with blank walls.
He motioned Leaphorn to sit on the boulder beside his chair.
He said: `To sit on the fence is to be on the wrong side of it.
They’ve been sitting on my application for over a month now.
When they finally caught up Nick dropped his bike on the ground and went to sit on the wall.
sits on
sitting on
sat on
There is no origin for this phrasal verb
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