sit with
sit with (one)
1. To provide company for one who is in or confined to bed. Tommy asked me to sit with him after waking up from an awful nightmare. We want to make sure there is always someone sitting with Paul while he is in the hospital.
2. To provide care to one who is unable to care for oneself, especially in for short periods of time. Thanks to the grant we received, we were able to hire someone to sit with Aunt Josephine for a few hours a day and give my poor mother a well deserved break. Will you come and sit with the kids while I go get the car serviced?
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Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.
sit with someone
1. to stay with someone; to sit up with someone. My uncle sat with me my first day in the hospital
2. to stay with and care for one or more children; to babysit for someone. I hired Mrs. Wilson to sit with the children. We couldn't go out for dinner because we couldn't find anyone to sit with the kids.
See also: sit
McGraw-Hill Dictionary of American Idioms and Phrasal Verbs.
- sit with (one)
- wealthy
- healthy
- early to bed and early to rise (makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise)
- Early to bed and early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise
- early to bed, early to rise (makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise)
- awful
- I'm awful with/at names
- for some reason (or other)
- go bad