坐视不理 — Chinese idiom
坐视不理
zuò shì bù lǐ
Traditional: 坐視不理
Meaning
- to sit and watch, but remain indifferent
Character by character
- 坐zuòseat; to sit; to ride, to travel by
- 视shìto look at, to inspect, to observe, to regard
- 不bùno, not, un-; negative prefix
- 理lǐscience, reason, logic; to manage
Idioms sharing a character
- 坐不垂堂 zuò bù chuí táng
- 坐井观天 zuò jǐng guān tiān
- 坐享其成 zuò xiǎng qí chéng
- 坐以待毙 zuò yǐ dài bì
- 坐吃山空 zuò chī shān kōng
- 坐失机宜 zuò shī jī yí
- 坐失良机 zuò shī liáng jī
- 坐收渔利 zuò shōu yú lì
- 坐立不安 zuò lì bù ān
- 坐立难安 zuò lì nán ān
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