sit out

Definition

To decline to participate; particularly, to decline to dance.

Example Sentences

• "I don't like this tune, and I'm rather tired, so I think I'll just sit out."
• "I don't like this tune, and I'm rather tired, so I think I'll just sit it out."
• "A large proportion of the millhands sat out the strike in their native villages, sometimes hundreds of miles from Bombay; the remainder survived precariously in the city with the help of casual labour and rations of grain […]"