Sit down
Sit down verb - Take a seat.
To sit
Both terms in one sentence
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This is occasionally Played for Laughs along the lines of "You'd better sit down." "I am sitting down." "Then stand up... now, you'd better sit down." Or "I need to sit down." "You are sitting down." "Oh."
Source: Dramatic Sit-Down -
Said friend goes to sit down, and John warns him he's about to sit on "Harvey." The real friend has a moment of awkward panic before John starts laughing, admitting to the gag, and saying there's no point in being nuts if you can't have some fun with it.
Source: Film / A Beautiful Mind -
She and Bruce sit down to eat Thanksgiving dinner in this fashion, but after Alfred is finished serving them, she drags her rather large chair to the other end of the table to sit next to Bruce (and eat off his plate).
Source: Table Space
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