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to sit back and enjoy

to sit back and enjoy

16 3.0
Relax and feel happy about something without worrying
  • phrasal verb
  • Informal
translation icon : relajarse y disfrutar
  • You just sit back and enjoy.
  • sit back and enjoy the ride
  • just sit back and enjoy
  • sit back, relax, and enjoy

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Examples

Synonyms

to enjoy
vsto sit back and enjoy
∞ 1.0

To feel happy because of something you do or see

adds relaxing, non-interfering attitude while enjoying

Antonyms

to worry
∞ 1.0

To feel nervous or afraid about possible problems

to interfere
487 3.5

To get involved in a situation and make things not work as they should

How Involved

to intervene
197 5.0
to take part
169 1.4
to watch
∞ 1.0
to sit back and enjoy
  • Informal
16 3.0

Surface Forms

sit back and enjoy infinitive
sitting back and enjoying present participle
sits back and enjoys third person singular
sat back and enjoyed past
sat back and enjoyed past participle

Morphology

sit + back + and + enjoy

The meaning is directly compositional: 'sit back' conveys relaxing or taking a non-interfering posture and 'enjoy' means to take pleasure; the conjunction simply links the two actions. This combination follows normal English composition and is cross-linguistically intuitive, so a B1 learner who knows the constituent words can reliably infer the intended sense.

Etymology

The phrase sit back and enjoy comes from the picture of someone leaning back in a chair, relaxed and watching without doing anything. The sit back part shows rest and not interfering, and enjoy shows taking pleasure, so the phrase means 'to relax and take pleasure in something without worrying or interfering'.