词汇 | sit on your hands |
释义 | sit on your handssit on your hands to delay taking action when you should do something 拖延着不采取行动 Workers are losing their jobs while the government sits on its hands and does nothing. 工人在失业,而政府却坐视不理。 Examples from the Corpus sit on your hands• So we sat on our hands about Sally, because we thought the stakes were higher than the National Enquirer.• Most delegates sat on their hands while a few radicals took control of the discussion. → sit on your hands at sit(6) |
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