sit around
phrasal verb
sat around; sitting around; sits around
: to spend time doing nothing useful
He sits around and does nothing while I do all the work.
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To avoid sitting around and waiting for the news to break, Reitan slept in.
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The New Yorker, 2 Nov. 2024
All these people were sitting around happy to talk.
—Trish Deitch, Variety, 2 Nov. 2024
The tour group is sitting around a table having dinner and reminiscing about their forebears’ resilience, not their suffering.
—Gal Beckerman, The Atlantic, 1 Nov. 2024
Some of this one is a bit dated, but try to watch it now through the eyes of a 1963 audience just sitting around the old TV after family dinner.
—Brian Tallerico, Vulture, 29 Oct. 2024
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The New Yorker, 2 Nov. 2024
All these people were sitting around happy to talk.
—Trish Deitch, Variety, 2 Nov. 2024
The tour group is sitting around a table having dinner and reminiscing about their forebears’ resilience, not their suffering.
—Gal Beckerman, The Atlantic, 1 Nov. 2024
Some of this one is a bit dated, but try to watch it now through the eyes of a 1963 audience just sitting around the old TV after family dinner.
—Brian Tallerico, Vulture, 29 Oct. 2024
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“Sit around.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/sit%20around. Accessed 17 Nov. 2024.
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