| 单词 | to sit on one's arse |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto sit on one's arse (also ass, backside, bum, etc.) P7. colloquial. to sit on one's arse (also ass, backside, bum, etc.): to do nothing, to be idle; to fail to take action.rare before 20th cent. ΚΠ 1589 Rare Triumphes Loue & Fortune iii. sig. C. iii Hee'le doo nothing all day long but sit on his arse. 1721 J. Kelly Compl. Coll. Scotish Prov. 295 Sit on your Arse, and call your Sorrans [i.e. Servants]. A Reproof to them that would have others do for them, what they ought to do themselves. 1945 W. S. Burroughs in W. S. Burroughs & J. Kerouac And Hippos were boiled in their Tanks (2008) iii. 27 Do you expect to have money sitting on your ass? Go to work in a shipyard. 1962 Hutchinson (Kansas) News 15 Oct. 4/2 Our senators have been sitting on their backsides doing nothing for us. 1993 Advertiser (Adelaide) (Nexis) 27 Feb. I don't like sitting on my bum so we work hard to get what we need. 2014 Herald (Glasgow) (Nexis) 15 Sept. hs7 It just felt better to come up and help than sit on our arses complaining. < as lemmas |
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