sit on one's hands
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I sat on my hands and watched the other members of the family clean the living-room.
Другие идиомы:
- get one's hands on (someone or something)
- on the other hand
- sit on its/their hands
- sit up and take notice
- to hand it to (someone)
- live hand-to-mouth
- sit at (someone's) feet
- dirty one's hands
- hand-me-down
- read the handwriting on the wall
- bound hand and foot
- hand (something) to (someone) on a silver platter
- play into (someone's) hands
- to be on hand
- putty in (someone's) hands