sit on one's hands
сидеть сложа руки, бездействовать
I sat on my hands and watched the other members of the family clean the living-room.
Другие идиомы:
- bound hand and foot
- in hand
- sit-in
- put one's hands on (something)
- do (something) by hand
- from hand to hand
- have (someone) eating out of (the palm of) your hand
- lend (someone) a hand
- near at hand
- first hand
- have (something) in one's hands
- on the one hand
- show of hands
- sit bolt upright
- sit around (somewhere)