sit on one's hands 的定义
- Take no action; also, fail to applaud. For example, Instead of making a new will, George is sitting on his hands, or The matinee audience was apathetic, sitting on their hands for the whole performance. Both usages of this metaphor for passivity date from the first half of the 1900s.
sit on one's hands 近义词
等同于 abstain
sit on one's hands 的近义词 34 个
- cease
- forgo
- pass up
- quit
- refrain
- renounce
- shun
- withhold
- abjure
- abnegate
- avoid
- constrain
- curb
- decline
- eschew
- evade
- fast
- forbear
- pass
- refuse
- spurn
- starve
- stop
- deny oneself
- do without
- fence-sit
- give the go by
- give up
- go on the wagon
- keep from
- sit on the fence
- sit out
- take the cure
- take the pledge
sit on one's hands 的反义词 11 个
等同于 kill time
sit on one's hands 的近义词 8 个
等同于 twiddle one's thumbs
sit on one's hands 的近义词 3 个
更多sit on one's hands例句
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