sit back

• “Now it's on to Wimbledon, with a re-energized Federer and a revenge-minded Djoko, as well as Andy Murray, who seems too content to simply sit back and play bass.”

  The Wall Street Journal: The Legend Who May Not Be Halfway Done

• “Get that report issued, hang the case-closed tag on it, and sit back and relax.”

  Simon & Schuster: A Bob Lee Swagger eBook Boxed Set

• “And when J.B. got on his slavery hobby-horse, as he always did, Joe would sit back with his lids half-closed, and I would wonder what was going on in that shrewd black mind.”

  Flashman and the angel of the lord

• “Now sit back in your favorite chair or, better yet, chill in the bed, and be prepared to be tantalized by yet another great read.”

  Simon & Schuster: I.O.U.

• “Then Dominikus serves tea, a mosquito coil is lit, and they all roll clove cigarettes and sit back to talk.”

  Simon & Schuster: The Song of The Dodo

• “The news I was providing caused him to sit back on his chair while he air-drummed an imaginary snare with two pencils.”

  Critical Conditions

• “Slowly, ashamedly, I sit back into my chair and lower my head, defeated.”

  Simon & Schuster: Venomous

• “I think Hamel was content to sit back and play the secret part.”

  Chapter 15

• “To avoid disturbance of their godly placidity he would of cource please sit back and somewhat apart.”

  A Voice From the South

• “Newspaper editors and stay-at-home croakers will sit back in safe places and condemn me.”

  Simon & Schuster: LEE’S LIEUTENANTS

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