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Remain firmly in one's place
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sit tight
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Sit Tight is a 1931 American Pre-Code musical comedy film, directed by Lloyd Bacon , written by Rex Taylor , edited by James Gibbon, and produced and distributed by Warner Bros. It was originally intended as a full musical, but due to the backlash against ...
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v. maintain the same position; wait it out; "Let's not make a decision--let's sit tight"
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Word definitions in Wiktionary
vb. (context idiomatic English) To wait patiently; to take no action; to remain quiet or relatively motionless.
Usage examples of sit tight.
The six of us just sit tight and from where we are in the monsoon ditch under the rock overhang, we can't see nothing.
Its base was angled to sit tight on the listing streets of Riverskin.
A good hard storm, a hard freeze, the armies will sit tight for a while.