sit tight

Meaning

1. Oxford61% of films

   to stay where you are rather than moving away or changing position

   Sit tight, Blue One, we're inbound to your pos.

   Like, sit tight, old buddy.

2. Oxford39% of films

   to stay in the same situation, without changing your mind or taking any action

   Okay, at this very moment, I say we sit tight and assess.

In the movies · 18

• Sit tight, Blue One, we're inbound to your pos.Avatar: The Way of Water2022
• Okay, at this very moment, I say we sit tight and assess.Don't Look Up2021
• You just sit tight and we'll come and get you.The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp1943
• Well, then sit tight.The Dark Knight Rises2012
• Yeah. Just sit tight.Trainwreck2015
• Sit tight and assess.Don't Look Up2021
• Like, sit tight, old buddy.Scooby-Doo on Zombie Island1998
• Sit tight, mama. Daddy's gotta fight.Year One2009

Learn it in full scenes

• Don't Look Up2021
  • Kate Discovers the Comet
  • The Astronomers Call Dr. Oglethorpe
  • Kate and Mindy Wait Seven Hours
• The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp1943
  • War Starts at Midnight
  • The Home Guard Exercise Turns Real
  • General Wynne-Candy Is Taken Prisoner

From the same entry

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

More idioms

• be life
• say what
• in no hurry
• anything goes
• keep your eyes peeled
• make peace with
• be on the phone
• be supposed to do
• be nothing to do with
• a bit of a
• at the same time
• as a matter of fact