/ · 1894 Brewer’s · S · Sit Out (To)
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To remain to the end. Not to join, as “to sit out a dance.”
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.