sit back
verb1
To recline while still in a seated position, with one's back on the frame of the seat.
- Please just sit back and watch the show.
- The line along the Northumbrian coast to Berwick and into Scotland is stunning (even on a Voyager!), and the weather is perfect - just sit back, relax, and enjoy the motion picture that plays beyond the window.2022 November 30, Paul Bigland, “Destination Oban: a Sunday in Scotland”, in RAIL, number 971, page 75:
2
Idiomatic To relax, to not exert oneself.
- Predictably in the second half it was the Potters, who went searching for goals as Fulham sat back to defend their lead.2010 December 28, Marc Vesty, “Stoke 0 - 2 Fulham”, in BBC:
- Derived terms
- sit back on one's heels