sit\ up\ with

sit\ up\ with
v. phr.
To be with; particularly to keep someone ill company.

Mrs. Brown sat up with her sick husband all night in the hospital room.


Словарь американских идиом. — СПб., Изд-во "Лань". . 1997.

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