on/from the sidelines
If you are on the sidelines or do something from the sidelines, you are not actively involved in something:
Women have been on the political sidelines for too long - we must now work towards getting into power.
She could only watch from the sidelines as her brother's health deteriorated.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Excluding
- acid-free
- alienate
- apart
- bar
- barring
- cut
- discount
- exclude
- excluding
- exclusion
- exclusive
- exclusively
- freeze sb out
- hold
- out of it idiom
- outside
- present
- present company excepted idiom
- send
- send sb to Coventry idiom
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