sitting on
Resting one's weight
Sitting on something means delaying action on it, keeping it in limbo rather than processing or releasing it: The editor has been sitting on my manuscript for months.
The image is of a hen on eggs—occupying something without letting it hatch.
You can sit on information, a decision, or a proposal.
To sit on someone is to suppress or restrain them: Management sat on anyone who complained.
- seatedIn a chair
- restingIn a state of stillness
- astraddlePositioned across something
- comfortablePhysically at ease
- chairSingle-person sitting furniture
stool · settling · bench · planted · ottoman · procrastinating · reclining · athwart · perch · office chair · lap of luxury · hoarding · cushion · saddle seat · fence · floor · mat · yoga mat
- suppressionrepression, inhibition, restraint, silencing, muzzling
ACTION VS. INACTION (idiomatic)
sitting onreleasing
Allowing to escape
acting on · disclosing · publishing · revealing · exposing