sit pat

"They would just sit pat until the company turned around or went out of business."

Like sitting pat at dock instead of tearing loose and running with what she had.

Investors have become complacent and feel a decline is coming, he added, so they are willing for the moment to sit pat.

Despite all her success, Latifah is hardly sitting pat.

The natural thing would be to sit pat, snipe away, and only attack if the enemy exposed himself recklessly.

"We're not going to sit pat," he said.

Garrick sat patting the little box that contained their invasion equipment, while the girl steered.

The pooh-bahs of politics have sat pat.

"All right, Officer, sit pat," the chief megaphoned.

Not having heard a word from Cassius, Brutus assumed as the racket built that he was to sit pat and do nothing.

And both houses may prefer to sit pat until Mr. Clinton and the Congress have acted.

Yeah, it's frustrating," sat Pat Dye, the Tigers' head coach.

Gabriella sat pat.

I sat patting my mare's sweat-darkened neck and wondering why he had brought me when Kazan pointed to the west and said, "There."

There, barring their way, sat Pat Shimm, the associate director, who has been through many Separation Days in the center's 20 years.

"You can't sit pat with a team that finished next to last in the league," said Milbury, who ran his prospects through a 90-minute workout later today.

Zurito sat patting his horse and looking at the bull charging the cape that Hernandez swung for him out under the bright light while the crowd shouted.

"We're not going to sit pat and watch ourselves become uncompetitive," said Richard J. Fochtman, a senior executive vice president of Mitsubishi's American subsidiary.

Bruce saw it was silly to sit patting the heads of these sufferers, and futile to prescribe pills for them-he must find the cause of Malta fever!

Art didn't say anything, just sat pat and waited, the way he did sometimes when con artists came into the shop with some kind of scam that they wanted him to play along with.

We got acquainted with the usual small talk and sat Pat and Joe down on the living room couch while Sue and I went to the kitchen to pour the wine.

Referring to Thorn, Nets General Manager Ed Stefanski and the team's owner, Bruce Ratner, Kidd said, "I don't think they'll sit pat."

The alternatives - sitting pat, or worse, getting into a moral panic about "piracy" and accusing the readers who are blazing new trail of "the moral equivalent of shoplifting" - have a *zero* percent chance of success.

The old lady appeared to forget Polly at the end of her speech; for she sat patting the plump little hand that lay in her own, and looking up at a faded picture of an old gentleman with a ruffled shirt and a queue.