sit by
— phrasal verb with sit /sɪt/ verb (present tense sitting, past tense and past participle sat)Definition
› to fail to take action to stop something wrong from happening: I can't just sit by and watch you waste all our money.Passive and not working
(Definition of sit by from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus
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