sit about

Meaning

1. Oxford65% of films

   to spend time doing nothing very useful

   instead of sitting around here, rotting

In the movies · 51

• Does he just sit around the house?Zero Effect1998
• The cops don't catch a killer by sitting around remembering stuff.Memento2000
• instead of sitting around here, rottingThe Mummy1999
• It made them sit about an eighth of an inch apart.Changeling2008
• You know, we can sit and think about what strange insecurities they were trying to overcome.Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room2005
• I can't sit and worry about the future I'm living nowThe Peanuts Movie2015
• - But I wanna know about... - Sit down, Mr. Cheswick.One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest1975

Learn it in full scenes

• Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room2005
  • Enron's Dabhol Plant in Ruins
  • Fastow Admits Both Sides
  • Skilling Loses It on the Call

From the same entry

• be sitting pretty
• sit at feet
• sit comfortably, easily, well
• sit in judgement
• sit on the fence
• sit tight
• sit bolt upright
• rest on your laurels
• sit silently by
• sit back
• sit by
• sit down

More phrasal verbs

• go back to
• root for
• turn back
• go without
• take it out on
• take up
• add to
• move over
• care for
• get down to
• reach out to
• get around