sit back
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Verb
editsitback (third-person singular simple presentsits back,present participlesitting back,simple past and past participlesat back)
- Torecline while still in aseated position, with one's back on the frame of the seat.
- Please justsit back and watch the show.
- 2022 November 30, Paul Bigland, “Destination Oban: a Sunday in Scotland”, inRAIL, number971, page75:
- The line along the Northumbrian coast to Berwick and into Scotland is stunning (even on a Voyager!), and the weather is perfect - justsit back, relax, and enjoy the motion picture that plays beyond the window.
- (idiomatic) Torelax, to notexert oneself.
- 2010 December 28, Marc Vesty, “Stoke 0 - 2 Fulham”, inBBC[1]:
- Predictably in the second half it was the Potters, who went searching for goals as Fulhamsat back to defend their lead.
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editto recline while still in a seated position
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to relax, to not exert oneself
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