English Dictionary

hand-sitter

名詞

慣用表現

(idiomatic) A person who sits on their hands; one who dawdles or remains idle when action is needed. / (idiomatic) An unenthusiastic or unresponsive member of an audience.

日本語の意味

必要な時に行動せず、ただ手を組みその場に留まる、怠け者として揶揄される人 / 無気力で反応が薄い聴衆の一員

During the crisis she was criticized as a hand-sitter, refusing to act while others struggled to cope.

危機のさなか、彼女は手をこまねく人だと非難され、他の人々が必死に対処している間も行動を起こさなかった。

意味（1）

(idiomatic) A person who sits on their hands; one who dawdles or remains idle when action is needed.

A key factor in Nelson Rockefeller's noncandidacy decision was the failure of the Republican governors—and leading liberal Republicans—to come out for him publicly after New Hampshire. There were personal telephone calls urging him to run, but that was all … Among the biggest hand-sitters was a former Republican governor […]

意味（2）

(idiomatic) An unenthusiastic or unresponsive member of an audience.

They were such a responsive audience, for one thing, so unlike the academic hand-sitters he was used to, and they'd turned out in such large numbers, despite a heavy downpour, filling the basement of the First Presbyterian Church to capacity, even standing in the back and along the walls.

hand-sitters （ plural ）