stay on the sidelines
Definition
› If you stay on the sidelines, you are not an important part of what is happening.Of little or less importance
(Definition of stay on the sidelines from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus
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Synonyms and related words:
- be in/under sb's shadow idiom
- be neither here nor there idiom
- be no big deal idiom
- derisory adjective
- fiddling adjective
- lowly adjective
- meaningless adjective (NOT IMPORTANT)
- mere adjective
- minor adjective (UNIMPORTANT)
- mouldy adjective (BAD)
- nickel-and-dime adjective
- petty adjective
- rinky-dink adjective
- sideshow noun
- small-time adjective
- sub- prefix (NOT EQUAL)
- subordinate adjective
- subordinate noun
- subordinate verb
- subordination noun
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