sit on
verb- To block, suppress, restrain (something). · The chairman sat on the report until the end of the legislative session.
- To restrain (a person). · He started to act up, but she sat on him.
- To take no action on (something); to hold (something) in reserve without actually using. · I sent the boss my proposal three weeks ago and he's just been sitting on it.
- To be a member of (something). · He sits on the appropriations committee.
- To hold an official inquiry regarding (something); to deliberate about (something).
- To insert (something) into one's vagina or anus from below. · Let me sit on it.
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see sit, on. · The cat sat on the mat.
From the library
But he remembered Nag and Nagaina, and though it was very pleasant to be patted and petted by Teddy’s mother, and to sit on Teddy’s shoulder, his eyes would get red from time to time, and he would go off into his long war cry of “Rikk-tikk-tikki-tikki-tchk!”
And now may I go out into your garden and sit on that bench under the apple-trees while you and Marilla are talking?
Take this chair, Marilla; it’s easier than the one you’ve got; I just keep that for the hired boy to sit on.
Even the Scarecrow and the Tin Woodman could sit on it, and were drawn swiftly by their queer little horses to the place where the Lion lay asleep.
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