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• WARM THE BENCH (verb)
The verb WARM THE BENCH has 1 sense:

1. be out of the game

Familiarity information: WARM THE BENCH used as a verb is very rare.

• WARM THE BENCH (verb)

Sense 1

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Meaning:

Be out of the game

Classified under:

Verbs of political and social activities and events

Synonyms:

ride the bench; warm the bench

Context example:

Miller was riding the bench in Saturday's game

Hypernyms (to "warm the bench" is one way to...):

idle; laze; slug; stagnate (be idle; exist in a changeless situation)

Domain category:

athletics; sport (an active diversion requiring physical exertion and competition)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s

"As you make your bed, so you must lie in it."
(English proverb)
"Don't sell eggs in the bottom of hens"
(Breton proverb)
"Ones neighbours problems, does not induce one to lose their appetite over them."
(Zimbabwean proverb)
"Using a cannon to shoot a mosquito."
(Dutch proverb)

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