دیکشنری آنلاین تحلیلگران ( معنی فارسی sit on hands )

sit on hands

IDIOM

▼ ادامه توضیحات دیکشنری؛ پس از بنر تبلیغاتی ▼

نسخه ویندوز دیکشنری تحلیلگران (آفلاین)بیش از 350,000 لغت و اصطلاح زبان انگلیسی براساس واژه های رایج و کاربردی لغت نامه های معتبر

به صفحه تحلیلگران در Instagram بپیوندیددر صفحه اینستاگرام آموزشگاه مجازی تحلیلگران، هر روز یک نکته جدید خواهید آموخت.

See more results:

» sit on hands
» sit on its hands
» sit on the ball
» sit on the fence
» sit on their hands

English Dictionary

sit on (one's) hands
To fail to act

[TahlilGaran] Dictionary of Contemporary English ▲

sit on one's hands
to do nothing, to fail to help

[TahlilGaran] Dictionary of Contemporary English ▲

Idioms

sit on hands ^[1]
sit on one's hands ^[2]
sit on one's hands ^[3]

sit on hands
sit on (your) hands
to do nothing about a problem or a situation that needs dealing with.

Every day the crisis worsens and yet the government seems content to sit on its hands.

[TahlilGaran] English Idioms Dictionary ▲

sit on one's hands
to do nothing, to fail to help

Our supervisor sat on his hands and refused to help us with our problem.

The manager sat on her hands and refused to do anything about the complaints that she had received.

[TahlilGaran] English Idioms Dictionary ▲

sit on one's hands
v. phr., informal To do nothing; fail or refuse to do anything.
We asked Bill for help with our project, but he sat on his hands.

[TahlilGaran] English Idioms Dictionary ▲