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sit around

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sit around
to relax sitting; to waste time sitting. Don't just sit around! Get moving! I need to sit around every now and then and reorganize my thoughts.
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sit around (somewhere)

to sit somewhere and relax or do nothing; to sit idly somewhere. Tom likes to sit around the house in shorts and a T-shirt on hot days. Too many people are just sitting around doing nothing at my office.
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sit around something

to be seated at the edge or perimeter of something. They sat around the camp fire for hours. We used to sit around the big kitchen table and talk.
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They all speak of me when they sit around their fire in the evening--they speak of me, but no one thinketh--of me!
You're not going to sit around here and whittle store-boxes and tell stories all your life.
I'm kind o' languid, with all night in an' nothin' to do but sit around.
 
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