Definition of sideline in English:

sideline

noun ˈsʌɪdlʌɪnˈsaɪdˌlaɪn

1An activity done in addition to one's main job, especially to earn extra income.
（尤指挣取外快的）副业，兼职
as modifier a sideline career as a stand-up comic
一份做单人说笑喜剧演员的兼职工作。
Example sentencesExamples
- At the time Moran had a lucrative sideline buying and selling houses in London.
- My chauffeur from Edinburgh airport had even started a sideline in temporary accommodation for visiting golfers.
- James installed a darkroom in his Silverstream home and took up professional photography as a sideline to his architecture.
- The majority of these tenants had a sideline farming activity going for income tax purposes.
- For three decades his sideline as a UFO writer/publisher generated extra income and self-satisfaction.
- After serving in the Royal Navy in India, he went into business in Cambridge, with psychical research as his main sideline.
- But Coates - also professor of architecture at the Royal College of Art - has long had a sideline in unconventional furniture design.
- We all had little writing sidelines for extra cash and Rick's was American sports.
- It was in 1835 that he published his first collection of three children's stories, a venture he considered a sideline but which would actually make his name.
- A long career in the music industry beckoned, with a secret sideline in writing songs (and that law-degree safety net).
- Keggs - suspected in the servants' hall of being a socialist at heart - has a profitable sideline in showing visitors round Belpher Castle.
- In the meantime, her income is buttressed by a lucrative sideline as the official face of L' Oréal.
- But music was little more than a sideline, and he earned his living in government service.
- John, who like many rural undertakers had a sideline in the building trade, was born and bred in Bourton.
- While pursuing his rock career, he had a sideline directing horror-inspired rock videos.
- It used to be a popular sideline for miners working shifts, but the collapse of the coal industry has been accompanied by a huge shortfall in retained firefighters.
- He and his first wife lived in Roundway Park and he had a sideline in collecting fallen timber at Leipzig Plantation on Roundway Down and selling it for firewood.
- Johannes trades in buffaloes as a sideline to his regular employment as a veterinary officer.
- He is a meteorologist in Florida with a sideline in helping lightning-strike victims.
- Adam, who studied engineering product design at South Bank University, does acting work as a sideline to earn money.
Synonyms
secondary occupation, second job, subsidiary
hobby, leisure activity/pursuit, recreation, diversion, distraction
1. 1.1 An auxiliary line of goods or trade.
  兼售的货类；附带的贸易
  electronic handbooks are a lucrative sideline for the firm
  电子手册是这家公司赚钱的附带商品。
  Example sentencesExamples
  That's the concept behind Offshore, a tidy little coffee palace with a neat sideline in furniture sales.
  He sells the devices as a sideline to his Electron Electrical Engineering Services reselling business.
  The sideline to Diageo's main activities brought some R22m a year to the group's consolidated operating profit.
  Early Mercedes were very solid, but there was very little buyer interest In the Midwest where we were pushing them as a sideline to Studebaker.
  As a sideline to their regular account work, McCall and his team kicked around the idea of creating an educational album leveraging music to help kids learn.
  The transfer of surveillance technology from first to third world is now a lucrative sideline for the arms industry.
  CACI is a fast-growing billion dollar information technology firm with an intriguing sideline in intelligence.
  But the new owners were Fang Brothers, a Hong Kong-based textiles conglomerate with a sideline in sweater-making.
  Bolton-by-Bowland Post Office opened a tearoom as a sideline to subsidise the existing operation.
  Across Europe, gigantic music stores stuffed to the gunwales with American pop, rock and urban do a sideline in hipster books.
  Beekeeping is a lucrative sideline for chestnut growers, as is selling the bolitus edulis growing under trees.
  That estimate doesn't include any contribution from Allete's sideline in sales of the 20,000 Florida acres it owns.
  If you have already integrated a vegetarian sideline in your food service operation, you are already a step ahead.
  Even more exciting is the band's new sideline in designing female undergarments embossed with the band's logo.
  For generations, retail firearm dealers have found hunting clothes and other outdoor garb to he a profitable sideline.
  Although it started as a sideline to their farm, it's now taken over as their primary business.
  A former deep sea diver and merchant banker, he used to run a computer company with a sideline in adult games.
2Either of the two lines bounding the longer sides of a football field, basketball court, tennis court, or similar playing area.
（足球场、篮球场等的）边线
Gascoigne celebrated his goal by sprinting to the sidelines
Example sentencesExamples
- You basically start out at half court, groups of two, and play one on one from the sideline to an imaginary line that divides the court.
- He raced down to the left sideline before crossing into the path of Luther Watson.
- Woodson was second on the scene and had a chance to two-hand-shove Crayton, who was tiptoeing along the sideline, out of bounds.
- He knows how to play in the middle of the field and work the sidelines.
- If you're playing people who don't know the doubles technique, when they hit it up smash it down the sidelines (wide court makes it hard to return) or straight down the middle.
- Every ball they hit into attack was landing in that 30-metre zone around goal, while anything Fermanagh sent into their forwards was too close to the sidelines and left their players with an awful lot to do to score.
- If he crossed the goal line near the sideline, a runner might try to fight his way toward the middle before touching down so as to get a better angle.
- Usually, Bird stands on the sideline only when timeouts are called, and even then, it seems like it's against his will.
- Feagles, who has wowed the team with his ability to launch high, long punts near either sideline or the goal line, might make the biggest difference.
- One problem, however, is that since it is street football, the sidelines aren't marked off very well and you have quite a few instances of accidentally running out of bounds.
- The camera pans from the court to the sidelines where cheerleaders (including Abby) are cheering through all the noise from the supporters.
- You ended up being forced out of bounds on most of the plays that went toward the sidelines.
- It's not a daily occurrence that a football flies to the sidelines to hit innocent victims!
- Jon Barry rises off the bench and maneuvers his way up the sideline toward the scorer's table.
- Folkestone boss Neil Cugley ran on to the pitch to support his players, who surrounded the referee, while a small number of Folkestone fans ran to the sidelines and shouted abuse at the official.
- Charlie Garner caught a long pass near the sideline and was slammed out of bounds by Jerome Woods.
- As they cut across the softball field he saw the maintenance crew setting up the bleachers along what would be the sidelines for the football field used by the semi-pro team that played there each fall.
- It seems his best plays come when he's running for his life and sprinting toward a sideline.
- The Giants on the sideline raced onto the field to celebrate with the kickoff team, drawing an unsportsmanlike conduct penalty, but the emotional lift seemed worth it.
- Early in the fourth quarter, Holt ran a streak pattern down the left sideline.
1. 2.1the sidelines The area immediately outside either sideline as a place for non-players, substitutes, or spectators.
  （供非运动员、替补队员或观众坐的）场外区域
  a referee collapsed during a match as his son watched from the sidelines
  Example sentencesExamples
  Acclaim's attention to detail has even extended to the sidelines, where team mascots jump about and try to get the animated crowd excited.
  The national trainer Plamen Markov also could not rely on one of the leaders of the team, Marian Hristov of the German Keiserslautern, who also due to injury had to stick to the sidelines.
  Some of the matches were really close and parents, friends and teachers cheered on their teams from the sidelines.
  Porto advanced with a 1-1 draw in the return encounter at Old Trafford, and Mourinho jumped in joy more than once as he ran down the sidelines to celebrate with his players.
  You'll even find animated coaches and cheerleaders roaming the sidelines.
  These actions almost cost their team 15 yards in penalties and the police were called to the sidelines to ensure no further childish antics would occur.
  With lots of cheering and support from the sidelines the game continued under a brilliant blue sky with a slight breeze coming from the Finke River end.
  Today, Holmgren is back to what he does best - patrolling the sidelines, creating strategies and inspiring players.
  There were several people who stopped to watch them along the sidelines and the half court line.
  Instead of observing from the sidelines, he preferred to jump into the game and look for the truth from the midst of the action.
  It's not nice watching from the sidelines, and with the game against Telford being postponed I've not played for over two weeks.
  Andrew Kwiatkowski, a former Clansman before transferring to the University of Western Ontario, was to be a member of the squad before a wrist injury forced him to the sidelines.
  I used to skate when I was a kid, but I still have a love for the sport even if it comes from the sidelines as a spectator.
  A former useful hurdler before being forced on to the sidelines with injury, The Butterwick Kid got off the mark over fences at Wetherby a fortnight ago.
  Quarter paced the sidelines while gulping down water out of his Gatorade water bottle and squeezing some of it over his head.
  The team walked onto the sidelines and we sat down on the benches that were there.
  The 25-year-old watched from the sidelines during his team's 1-0 victory, blaming the accident for his absence.
  The worst part about being injured has been watching the games from the sidelines.
  I'm not the best of watchers and tend to coach too much from the sidelines because I'd far rather be helping out on the pitch.
  Particularly where the movements are fast and fluid, a coach observing proceedings from the sidelines is in a better position than the captain to analyse the immediate match position and to decide on the tactics to be employed.
2. 2.2the sidelines A position where one is observing a situation rather than directly involved in it.
  当旁观者，当局外人
  we are not just watching from the sidelines, we are rolling our sleeves up and getting involved
  Example sentencesExamples
  No longer content to quietly observe from the sidelines, it's high time the association made its foray into the political sphere.
  It may be unwise to comment trenchantly from the sidelines about a situation O'Neill is observing daily in training.
  I suggest that she goes out and speaks to some of the 750 local residents who signed the petition or wrote letters to the council, rather than moaning from the sidelines.
  The APEC leaders are also expected to hold a number of bilateral talks on the sidelines of the summit.
  She and Chuck slipped right in while other media were forced to observe from the sidelines.
  For years, I have watched bemused from the sidelines at weddings, wondering how it is that everyone else in the world seems to know how to perform those allegedly traditional Scottish dances as I remain resolutely clueless.
  Instead, they hold talks on the sidelines of multilateral meetings.
  The first of the supermarkets to go online, with the rest stuttering at the sidelines, Tesco has taken a gamble which seems to be paying off.
  We could really do without the sniping from the sidelines and continual undermining of our efforts.
  If you are a parent and you are sitting on the sidelines, you are not to give them any instructions from the sidelines and at no time are you allowed to go on the mat to help instruct your child.
  They prefer to carp from the sidelines rather than take the tough decisions which their numerical superiority over the other group entitles them to take.
  Keith Porteous Wood, executive director of the National Secular Society, watched from the sidelines as the House of Commons debated the future of faith schools.
  And though the Lysons knew exactly what was happening as they observed from the sidelines, they said nothing.
  More of us are financially comfortable and have the luxury of sniping at politics from the sidelines rather than actively engaging in it (and yes, I include myself in this).
  What astonishes those observing from the sidelines is that most of the wider community of around 1,700 people perceive Mackintosh to be a benevolent landlord who has spent his own money on improving their lot.
  It was a proud moment for the whole team of the Fly Inn and especially for the Boss Glen, who had been quietly observing from the sidelines throughout the evening.
  Now retired myself and observing from the sidelines, I wonder who the community thinks organises this event.
  SFU student Karen Parusel is making the journey to Québec City in order to actively participate in the event rather than observe it from the sidelines.
  It amuses me when I hear people say they went into journalism because they are introverts who would rather watch from the sidelines.
  The braver elements lit flares and fireworks and held them up above their heads, waving them over the crowd so that the air was filled with white smoke, and all the while the only two police officers we saw just looked on from the sidelines.
  Synonyms
  without taking part, without getting involved

verb ˈsʌɪdlʌɪnˈsaɪdˌlaɪn

[with object]

1Cause (a player) to be unable to play in a team or game.
使（运动员）无法参赛
an ankle injury has sidelined him for two weeks
踝部受伤已迫使他停赛两周。
Example sentencesExamples
- Young centre back Michael Naylor is the only player likely to be sidelined through injury after missing the midweek victory.
- Green, currently sidelined by an ankle injury, has the potential to become a major force.
- He was sidelined after just three games last year because of a shoulder injury that required surgery.
- It was a pity that the game got a bit out of hand in the last quarter and that three players were sidelined.
- His impact would have been greater had a high ankle sprain not sidelined him four of the last six games.
- Gavin has been sidelined with a foot injury picked up in the opening pre-season friendly.
- An operation like this typically sidelines a player anywhere from 4-6 weeks.
- Taylor played well as a rookie until a shoulder injury sidelined him at midseason.
- The former Salford player has been sidelined with a chest injury but has been passed fit to face the Cup holders.
- When injuries sidelined the big gunners, he played a key role in keeping the team winning.
- This sort of problem would sideline a current player for at least a month, but Butch played through the pain.
- Five starters and nine players overall have been sidelined for stretches of a week or more.
- He is expected to pick up where he left off when sidelined with an ankle injury.
- Graham's injury is a cruel blow to himself and his team and he's expected to be sidelined for up to six weeks.
- The women's team began the year with several of its top gymnasts sidelined with injury.
- The other three runners-up all had at least one star player sidelined for more than half the season.
- During the stretch run last season, he was sidelined for three crucial games by the flu and a lack of energy.
- Now with more than half a team sidelined by work and injury, he has been forced to turn to the youth team - and has not ruled himself out of a return.
- The condition is one that often lingers for weeks and could sideline a player for a month or more should the tendon snap.
- In his second year he fractured two ribs in the third preseason game, sidelining him for a number of games.
1. 1.1 Remove from the centre of activity or attention; place in a less influential position.
  〈喻〉使靠边；使降格
  backbench MPs have been sidelined and excluded from decision-making
  后座议员已经靠边站，无权参与决策。
  Example sentencesExamples
  However, Jones denied the new structure was aimed at sidelining Bertrand, saying he was being moved into the position to concentrate on the company's refinery upgrade programme.
  They have become effectively sidelined in the pensions debate.
  Sources for both companies say Bell was instrumental in getting the deal done, sidelining the lawyers who had failed to agree on a valuation for the joint venture and putting his finance guys out front.
  One of the objectives of these meetings was to reshape the top leadership at the Pentagon, sidelining or removing those who were regarded as moderates.
  Officials endorsed the decision, but were obviously furious about being effectively sidelined.

Rhymes

guideline, tideline

Definition of sideline in US English:

sideline

nounˈsaɪdˌlaɪnˈsīdˌlīn

1An activity done in addition to one's main job, especially to earn extra income.
（尤指挣取外快的）副业，兼职
as modifier a sideline career as a stand-up comic
一份做单人说笑喜剧演员的兼职工作。
Example sentencesExamples
- For three decades his sideline as a UFO writer/publisher generated extra income and self-satisfaction.
- We all had little writing sidelines for extra cash and Rick's was American sports.
- The majority of these tenants had a sideline farming activity going for income tax purposes.
- It used to be a popular sideline for miners working shifts, but the collapse of the coal industry has been accompanied by a huge shortfall in retained firefighters.
- It was in 1835 that he published his first collection of three children's stories, a venture he considered a sideline but which would actually make his name.
- But music was little more than a sideline, and he earned his living in government service.
- My chauffeur from Edinburgh airport had even started a sideline in temporary accommodation for visiting golfers.
- He is a meteorologist in Florida with a sideline in helping lightning-strike victims.
- John, who like many rural undertakers had a sideline in the building trade, was born and bred in Bourton.
- A long career in the music industry beckoned, with a secret sideline in writing songs (and that law-degree safety net).
- He and his first wife lived in Roundway Park and he had a sideline in collecting fallen timber at Leipzig Plantation on Roundway Down and selling it for firewood.
- Keggs - suspected in the servants' hall of being a socialist at heart - has a profitable sideline in showing visitors round Belpher Castle.
- In the meantime, her income is buttressed by a lucrative sideline as the official face of L' Oréal.
- After serving in the Royal Navy in India, he went into business in Cambridge, with psychical research as his main sideline.
- While pursuing his rock career, he had a sideline directing horror-inspired rock videos.
- James installed a darkroom in his Silverstream home and took up professional photography as a sideline to his architecture.
- Johannes trades in buffaloes as a sideline to his regular employment as a veterinary officer.
- Adam, who studied engineering product design at South Bank University, does acting work as a sideline to earn money.
- At the time Moran had a lucrative sideline buying and selling houses in London.
- But Coates - also professor of architecture at the Royal College of Art - has long had a sideline in unconventional furniture design.
Synonyms
secondary occupation, second job, side job, subsidiary
1. 1.1 An auxiliary line of goods or business.
  兼售的货类；附带的贸易
  electronic handbooks are a lucrative sideline for the firm
  电子手册是这家公司赚钱的附带商品。
  Example sentencesExamples
  The transfer of surveillance technology from first to third world is now a lucrative sideline for the arms industry.
  Although it started as a sideline to their farm, it's now taken over as their primary business.
  Even more exciting is the band's new sideline in designing female undergarments embossed with the band's logo.
  The sideline to Diageo's main activities brought some R22m a year to the group's consolidated operating profit.
  If you have already integrated a vegetarian sideline in your food service operation, you are already a step ahead.
  Across Europe, gigantic music stores stuffed to the gunwales with American pop, rock and urban do a sideline in hipster books.
  CACI is a fast-growing billion dollar information technology firm with an intriguing sideline in intelligence.
  Bolton-by-Bowland Post Office opened a tearoom as a sideline to subsidise the existing operation.
  For generations, retail firearm dealers have found hunting clothes and other outdoor garb to he a profitable sideline.
  But the new owners were Fang Brothers, a Hong Kong-based textiles conglomerate with a sideline in sweater-making.
  That estimate doesn't include any contribution from Allete's sideline in sales of the 20,000 Florida acres it owns.
  That's the concept behind Offshore, a tidy little coffee palace with a neat sideline in furniture sales.
  He sells the devices as a sideline to his Electron Electrical Engineering Services reselling business.
  Early Mercedes were very solid, but there was very little buyer interest In the Midwest where we were pushing them as a sideline to Studebaker.
  A former deep sea diver and merchant banker, he used to run a computer company with a sideline in adult games.
  Beekeeping is a lucrative sideline for chestnut growers, as is selling the bolitus edulis growing under trees.
  As a sideline to their regular account work, McCall and his team kicked around the idea of creating an educational album leveraging music to help kids learn.
2usually sidelinesEither of the two lines bounding the longer sides of a football field, basketball court, tennis court, or similar playing area.
（足球场、篮球场等的）边线
Example sentencesExamples
- It's not a daily occurrence that a football flies to the sidelines to hit innocent victims!
- It seems his best plays come when he's running for his life and sprinting toward a sideline.
- Woodson was second on the scene and had a chance to two-hand-shove Crayton, who was tiptoeing along the sideline, out of bounds.
- Feagles, who has wowed the team with his ability to launch high, long punts near either sideline or the goal line, might make the biggest difference.
- He knows how to play in the middle of the field and work the sidelines.
- You ended up being forced out of bounds on most of the plays that went toward the sidelines.
- Every ball they hit into attack was landing in that 30-metre zone around goal, while anything Fermanagh sent into their forwards was too close to the sidelines and left their players with an awful lot to do to score.
- If you're playing people who don't know the doubles technique, when they hit it up smash it down the sidelines (wide court makes it hard to return) or straight down the middle.
- Early in the fourth quarter, Holt ran a streak pattern down the left sideline.
- One problem, however, is that since it is street football, the sidelines aren't marked off very well and you have quite a few instances of accidentally running out of bounds.
- As they cut across the softball field he saw the maintenance crew setting up the bleachers along what would be the sidelines for the football field used by the semi-pro team that played there each fall.
- The camera pans from the court to the sidelines where cheerleaders (including Abby) are cheering through all the noise from the supporters.
- If he crossed the goal line near the sideline, a runner might try to fight his way toward the middle before touching down so as to get a better angle.
- The Giants on the sideline raced onto the field to celebrate with the kickoff team, drawing an unsportsmanlike conduct penalty, but the emotional lift seemed worth it.
- Usually, Bird stands on the sideline only when timeouts are called, and even then, it seems like it's against his will.
- He raced down to the left sideline before crossing into the path of Luther Watson.
- Jon Barry rises off the bench and maneuvers his way up the sideline toward the scorer's table.
- Charlie Garner caught a long pass near the sideline and was slammed out of bounds by Jerome Woods.
- You basically start out at half court, groups of two, and play one on one from the sideline to an imaginary line that divides the court.
- Folkestone boss Neil Cugley ran on to the pitch to support his players, who surrounded the referee, while a small number of Folkestone fans ran to the sidelines and shouted abuse at the official.
1. 2.1 The area immediately outside either sideline as a place for nonplayers, substitutes, or spectators.
  （供非运动员、替补队员或观众坐的）场外区域
  his son watched from the sidelines
  See also "on the sidelines" below
  Example sentencesExamples
  The national trainer Plamen Markov also could not rely on one of the leaders of the team, Marian Hristov of the German Keiserslautern, who also due to injury had to stick to the sidelines.
  These actions almost cost their team 15 yards in penalties and the police were called to the sidelines to ensure no further childish antics would occur.
  I used to skate when I was a kid, but I still have a love for the sport even if it comes from the sidelines as a spectator.
  I'm not the best of watchers and tend to coach too much from the sidelines because I'd far rather be helping out on the pitch.
  There were several people who stopped to watch them along the sidelines and the half court line.
  You'll even find animated coaches and cheerleaders roaming the sidelines.
  Particularly where the movements are fast and fluid, a coach observing proceedings from the sidelines is in a better position than the captain to analyse the immediate match position and to decide on the tactics to be employed.
  Instead of observing from the sidelines, he preferred to jump into the game and look for the truth from the midst of the action.
  Some of the matches were really close and parents, friends and teachers cheered on their teams from the sidelines.
  Acclaim's attention to detail has even extended to the sidelines, where team mascots jump about and try to get the animated crowd excited.
  It's not nice watching from the sidelines, and with the game against Telford being postponed I've not played for over two weeks.
  The worst part about being injured has been watching the games from the sidelines.
  Today, Holmgren is back to what he does best - patrolling the sidelines, creating strategies and inspiring players.
  The team walked onto the sidelines and we sat down on the benches that were there.
  A former useful hurdler before being forced on to the sidelines with injury, The Butterwick Kid got off the mark over fences at Wetherby a fortnight ago.
  Andrew Kwiatkowski, a former Clansman before transferring to the University of Western Ontario, was to be a member of the squad before a wrist injury forced him to the sidelines.
  Quarter paced the sidelines while gulping down water out of his Gatorade water bottle and squeezing some of it over his head.
  The 25-year-old watched from the sidelines during his team's 1-0 victory, blaming the accident for his absence.
  With lots of cheering and support from the sidelines the game continued under a brilliant blue sky with a slight breeze coming from the Finke River end.
  Porto advanced with a 1-1 draw in the return encounter at Old Trafford, and Mourinho jumped in joy more than once as he ran down the sidelines to celebrate with his players.

verbˈsaɪdˌlaɪnˈsīdˌlīn

[with object]

1Cause (a player) to be unable to play in a team or game.
使（运动员）无法参赛
he has been sidelined for the last six weeks with a fractured wrist
Example sentencesExamples
- Young centre back Michael Naylor is the only player likely to be sidelined through injury after missing the midweek victory.
- When injuries sidelined the big gunners, he played a key role in keeping the team winning.
- In his second year he fractured two ribs in the third preseason game, sidelining him for a number of games.
- An operation like this typically sidelines a player anywhere from 4-6 weeks.
- He was sidelined after just three games last year because of a shoulder injury that required surgery.
- He is expected to pick up where he left off when sidelined with an ankle injury.
- Green, currently sidelined by an ankle injury, has the potential to become a major force.
- Graham's injury is a cruel blow to himself and his team and he's expected to be sidelined for up to six weeks.
- It was a pity that the game got a bit out of hand in the last quarter and that three players were sidelined.
- Five starters and nine players overall have been sidelined for stretches of a week or more.
- This sort of problem would sideline a current player for at least a month, but Butch played through the pain.
- During the stretch run last season, he was sidelined for three crucial games by the flu and a lack of energy.
- The other three runners-up all had at least one star player sidelined for more than half the season.
- The women's team began the year with several of its top gymnasts sidelined with injury.
- The former Salford player has been sidelined with a chest injury but has been passed fit to face the Cup holders.
- Taylor played well as a rookie until a shoulder injury sidelined him at midseason.
- Now with more than half a team sidelined by work and injury, he has been forced to turn to the youth team - and has not ruled himself out of a return.
- Gavin has been sidelined with a foot injury picked up in the opening pre-season friendly.
- The condition is one that often lingers for weeks and could sideline a player for a month or more should the tendon snap.
- His impact would have been greater had a high ankle sprain not sidelined him four of the last six games.
1. 1.1 Remove from the center of activity or attention; place in a less influential position.
  〈喻〉使靠边；使降格
  a respected lawyer will be sidelined by alcohol abuse
  Example sentencesExamples
  However, Jones denied the new structure was aimed at sidelining Bertrand, saying he was being moved into the position to concentrate on the company's refinery upgrade programme.
  Officials endorsed the decision, but were obviously furious about being effectively sidelined.
  One of the objectives of these meetings was to reshape the top leadership at the Pentagon, sidelining or removing those who were regarded as moderates.
  They have become effectively sidelined in the pensions debate.
  Sources for both companies say Bell was instrumental in getting the deal done, sidelining the lawyers who had failed to agree on a valuation for the joint venture and putting his finance guys out front.

Phrases

on (or from) the sidelines

In (or from) a position where one is observing a situation but is unable or unwilling to be directly involved in it.
当旁观者，当局外人
Example sentencesExamples
- They were here to dance, not to gawp on the sidelines like tourists.
- There is no reason why other sports should remain on the sidelines for the next 25 years.
- So I am grateful for this seat on the sidelines as the choir sings and the march unfolds.
- Burnley winger Alan Moore faces a lengthy spell on the sidelines after undergoing ankle surgery later today.
- He was then expected to add to his fan base by winning at Naas last month before a chipped bone put him on the sidelines.
- Behaviour such as this on the sidelines by parents and other family members should not be tolerated.
- Koizumi has met with Chinese leaders only on the sidelines of multilateral conferences.
- Doubtless, officials wanted to stay on the sidelines in the hope that a compromise might be found.
- A week on the sidelines can do nothing but benefit him and I expect him to come back firing on all cylinders again at Preston.
- Surgery is expected to go ahead in four weeks' time, leaving Brass on the sidelines at least until the end of the season.

词汇	sideline
释义	Definition of sideline in English: sideline noun ˈsʌɪdlʌɪnˈsaɪdˌlaɪn 1An activity done in addition to one's main job, especially to earn extra income. （尤指挣取外快的）副业，兼职 as modifier a sideline career as a stand-up comic 一份做单人说笑喜剧演员的兼职工作。 Example sentencesExamples At the time Moran had a lucrative sideline buying and selling houses in London. My chauffeur from Edinburgh airport had even started a sideline in temporary accommodation for visiting golfers. James installed a darkroom in his Silverstream home and took up professional photography as a sideline to his architecture. The majority of these tenants had a sideline farming activity going for income tax purposes. For three decades his sideline as a UFO writer/publisher generated extra income and self-satisfaction. After serving in the Royal Navy in India, he went into business in Cambridge, with psychical research as his main sideline. But Coates - also professor of architecture at the Royal College of Art - has long had a sideline in unconventional furniture design. We all had little writing sidelines for extra cash and Rick's was American sports. It was in 1835 that he published his first collection of three children's stories, a venture he considered a sideline but which would actually make his name. A long career in the music industry beckoned, with a secret sideline in writing songs (and that law-degree safety net). Keggs - suspected in the servants' hall of being a socialist at heart - has a profitable sideline in showing visitors round Belpher Castle. In the meantime, her income is buttressed by a lucrative sideline as the official face of L' Oréal. But music was little more than a sideline, and he earned his living in government service. John, who like many rural undertakers had a sideline in the building trade, was born and bred in Bourton. While pursuing his rock career, he had a sideline directing horror-inspired rock videos. It used to be a popular sideline for miners working shifts, but the collapse of the coal industry has been accompanied by a huge shortfall in retained firefighters. He and his first wife lived in Roundway Park and he had a sideline in collecting fallen timber at Leipzig Plantation on Roundway Down and selling it for firewood. Johannes trades in buffaloes as a sideline to his regular employment as a veterinary officer. He is a meteorologist in Florida with a sideline in helping lightning-strike victims. Adam, who studied engineering product design at South Bank University, does acting work as a sideline to earn money. Synonyms secondary occupation, second job, subsidiary hobby, leisure activity/pursuit, recreation, diversion, distraction 1.1 An auxiliary line of goods or trade. 兼售的货类；附带的贸易 electronic handbooks are a lucrative sideline for the firm 电子手册是这家公司赚钱的附带商品。 Example sentencesExamples That's the concept behind Offshore, a tidy little coffee palace with a neat sideline in furniture sales. He sells the devices as a sideline to his Electron Electrical Engineering Services reselling business. The sideline to Diageo's main activities brought some R22m a year to the group's consolidated operating profit. Early Mercedes were very solid, but there was very little buyer interest In the Midwest where we were pushing them as a sideline to Studebaker. As a sideline to their regular account work, McCall and his team kicked around the idea of creating an educational album leveraging music to help kids learn. The transfer of surveillance technology from first to third world is now a lucrative sideline for the arms industry. CACI is a fast-growing billion dollar information technology firm with an intriguing sideline in intelligence. But the new owners were Fang Brothers, a Hong Kong-based textiles conglomerate with a sideline in sweater-making. Bolton-by-Bowland Post Office opened a tearoom as a sideline to subsidise the existing operation. Across Europe, gigantic music stores stuffed to the gunwales with American pop, rock and urban do a sideline in hipster books. Beekeeping is a lucrative sideline for chestnut growers, as is selling the bolitus edulis growing under trees. That estimate doesn't include any contribution from Allete's sideline in sales of the 20,000 Florida acres it owns. If you have already integrated a vegetarian sideline in your food service operation, you are already a step ahead. Even more exciting is the band's new sideline in designing female undergarments embossed with the band's logo. For generations, retail firearm dealers have found hunting clothes and other outdoor garb to he a profitable sideline. Although it started as a sideline to their farm, it's now taken over as their primary business. A former deep sea diver and merchant banker, he used to run a computer company with a sideline in adult games. 2Either of the two lines bounding the longer sides of a football field, basketball court, tennis court, or similar playing area. （足球场、篮球场等的）边线 Gascoigne celebrated his goal by sprinting to the sidelines Example sentencesExamples You basically start out at half court, groups of two, and play one on one from the sideline to an imaginary line that divides the court. He raced down to the left sideline before crossing into the path of Luther Watson. Woodson was second on the scene and had a chance to two-hand-shove Crayton, who was tiptoeing along the sideline, out of bounds. He knows how to play in the middle of the field and work the sidelines. If you're playing people who don't know the doubles technique, when they hit it up smash it down the sidelines (wide court makes it hard to return) or straight down the middle. Every ball they hit into attack was landing in that 30-metre zone around goal, while anything Fermanagh sent into their forwards was too close to the sidelines and left their players with an awful lot to do to score. If he crossed the goal line near the sideline, a runner might try to fight his way toward the middle before touching down so as to get a better angle. Usually, Bird stands on the sideline only when timeouts are called, and even then, it seems like it's against his will. Feagles, who has wowed the team with his ability to launch high, long punts near either sideline or the goal line, might make the biggest difference. One problem, however, is that since it is street football, the sidelines aren't marked off very well and you have quite a few instances of accidentally running out of bounds. The camera pans from the court to the sidelines where cheerleaders (including Abby) are cheering through all the noise from the supporters. You ended up being forced out of bounds on most of the plays that went toward the sidelines. It's not a daily occurrence that a football flies to the sidelines to hit innocent victims! Jon Barry rises off the bench and maneuvers his way up the sideline toward the scorer's table. Folkestone boss Neil Cugley ran on to the pitch to support his players, who surrounded the referee, while a small number of Folkestone fans ran to the sidelines and shouted abuse at the official. Charlie Garner caught a long pass near the sideline and was slammed out of bounds by Jerome Woods. As they cut across the softball field he saw the maintenance crew setting up the bleachers along what would be the sidelines for the football field used by the semi-pro team that played there each fall. It seems his best plays come when he's running for his life and sprinting toward a sideline. The Giants on the sideline raced onto the field to celebrate with the kickoff team, drawing an unsportsmanlike conduct penalty, but the emotional lift seemed worth it. Early in the fourth quarter, Holt ran a streak pattern down the left sideline. 2.1the sidelines The area immediately outside either sideline as a place for non-players, substitutes, or spectators. （供非运动员、替补队员或观众坐的）场外区域 a referee collapsed during a match as his son watched from the sidelines Example sentencesExamples Acclaim's attention to detail has even extended to the sidelines, where team mascots jump about and try to get the animated crowd excited. The national trainer Plamen Markov also could not rely on one of the leaders of the team, Marian Hristov of the German Keiserslautern, who also due to injury had to stick to the sidelines. Some of the matches were really close and parents, friends and teachers cheered on their teams from the sidelines. Porto advanced with a 1-1 draw in the return encounter at Old Trafford, and Mourinho jumped in joy more than once as he ran down the sidelines to celebrate with his players. You'll even find animated coaches and cheerleaders roaming the sidelines. These actions almost cost their team 15 yards in penalties and the police were called to the sidelines to ensure no further childish antics would occur. With lots of cheering and support from the sidelines the game continued under a brilliant blue sky with a slight breeze coming from the Finke River end. Today, Holmgren is back to what he does best - patrolling the sidelines, creating strategies and inspiring players. There were several people who stopped to watch them along the sidelines and the half court line. Instead of observing from the sidelines, he preferred to jump into the game and look for the truth from the midst of the action. It's not nice watching from the sidelines, and with the game against Telford being postponed I've not played for over two weeks. Andrew Kwiatkowski, a former Clansman before transferring to the University of Western Ontario, was to be a member of the squad before a wrist injury forced him to the sidelines. I used to skate when I was a kid, but I still have a love for the sport even if it comes from the sidelines as a spectator. A former useful hurdler before being forced on to the sidelines with injury, The Butterwick Kid got off the mark over fences at Wetherby a fortnight ago. Quarter paced the sidelines while gulping down water out of his Gatorade water bottle and squeezing some of it over his head. The team walked onto the sidelines and we sat down on the benches that were there. The 25-year-old watched from the sidelines during his team's 1-0 victory, blaming the accident for his absence. The worst part about being injured has been watching the games from the sidelines. I'm not the best of watchers and tend to coach too much from the sidelines because I'd far rather be helping out on the pitch. Particularly where the movements are fast and fluid, a coach observing proceedings from the sidelines is in a better position than the captain to analyse the immediate match position and to decide on the tactics to be employed. 2.2the sidelines A position where one is observing a situation rather than directly involved in it. 当旁观者，当局外人 we are not just watching from the sidelines, we are rolling our sleeves up and getting involved Example sentencesExamples No longer content to quietly observe from the sidelines, it's high time the association made its foray into the political sphere. It may be unwise to comment trenchantly from the sidelines about a situation O'Neill is observing daily in training. I suggest that she goes out and speaks to some of the 750 local residents who signed the petition or wrote letters to the council, rather than moaning from the sidelines. The APEC leaders are also expected to hold a number of bilateral talks on the sidelines of the summit. She and Chuck slipped right in while other media were forced to observe from the sidelines. For years, I have watched bemused from the sidelines at weddings, wondering how it is that everyone else in the world seems to know how to perform those allegedly traditional Scottish dances as I remain resolutely clueless. Instead, they hold talks on the sidelines of multilateral meetings. The first of the supermarkets to go online, with the rest stuttering at the sidelines, Tesco has taken a gamble which seems to be paying off. We could really do without the sniping from the sidelines and continual undermining of our efforts. If you are a parent and you are sitting on the sidelines, you are not to give them any instructions from the sidelines and at no time are you allowed to go on the mat to help instruct your child. They prefer to carp from the sidelines rather than take the tough decisions which their numerical superiority over the other group entitles them to take. Keith Porteous Wood, executive director of the National Secular Society, watched from the sidelines as the House of Commons debated the future of faith schools. And though the Lysons knew exactly what was happening as they observed from the sidelines, they said nothing. More of us are financially comfortable and have the luxury of sniping at politics from the sidelines rather than actively engaging in it (and yes, I include myself in this). What astonishes those observing from the sidelines is that most of the wider community of around 1,700 people perceive Mackintosh to be a benevolent landlord who has spent his own money on improving their lot. It was a proud moment for the whole team of the Fly Inn and especially for the Boss Glen, who had been quietly observing from the sidelines throughout the evening. Now retired myself and observing from the sidelines, I wonder who the community thinks organises this event. SFU student Karen Parusel is making the journey to Québec City in order to actively participate in the event rather than observe it from the sidelines. It amuses me when I hear people say they went into journalism because they are introverts who would rather watch from the sidelines. The braver elements lit flares and fireworks and held them up above their heads, waving them over the crowd so that the air was filled with white smoke, and all the while the only two police officers we saw just looked on from the sidelines. Synonyms without taking part, without getting involved verb ˈsʌɪdlʌɪnˈsaɪdˌlaɪn [with object] 1Cause (a player) to be unable to play in a team or game. 使（运动员）无法参赛 an ankle injury has sidelined him for two weeks 踝部受伤已迫使他停赛两周。 Example sentencesExamples Young centre back Michael Naylor is the only player likely to be sidelined through injury after missing the midweek victory. Green, currently sidelined by an ankle injury, has the potential to become a major force. He was sidelined after just three games last year because of a shoulder injury that required surgery. It was a pity that the game got a bit out of hand in the last quarter and that three players were sidelined. His impact would have been greater had a high ankle sprain not sidelined him four of the last six games. Gavin has been sidelined with a foot injury picked up in the opening pre-season friendly. An operation like this typically sidelines a player anywhere from 4-6 weeks. Taylor played well as a rookie until a shoulder injury sidelined him at midseason. The former Salford player has been sidelined with a chest injury but has been passed fit to face the Cup holders. When injuries sidelined the big gunners, he played a key role in keeping the team winning. This sort of problem would sideline a current player for at least a month, but Butch played through the pain. Five starters and nine players overall have been sidelined for stretches of a week or more. He is expected to pick up where he left off when sidelined with an ankle injury. Graham's injury is a cruel blow to himself and his team and he's expected to be sidelined for up to six weeks. The women's team began the year with several of its top gymnasts sidelined with injury. The other three runners-up all had at least one star player sidelined for more than half the season. During the stretch run last season, he was sidelined for three crucial games by the flu and a lack of energy. Now with more than half a team sidelined by work and injury, he has been forced to turn to the youth team - and has not ruled himself out of a return. The condition is one that often lingers for weeks and could sideline a player for a month or more should the tendon snap. In his second year he fractured two ribs in the third preseason game, sidelining him for a number of games. 1.1 Remove from the centre of activity or attention; place in a less influential position. 〈喻〉使靠边；使降格 backbench MPs have been sidelined and excluded from decision-making 后座议员已经靠边站，无权参与决策。 Example sentencesExamples However, Jones denied the new structure was aimed at sidelining Bertrand, saying he was being moved into the position to concentrate on the company's refinery upgrade programme. They have become effectively sidelined in the pensions debate. Sources for both companies say Bell was instrumental in getting the deal done, sidelining the lawyers who had failed to agree on a valuation for the joint venture and putting his finance guys out front. One of the objectives of these meetings was to reshape the top leadership at the Pentagon, sidelining or removing those who were regarded as moderates. Officials endorsed the decision, but were obviously furious about being effectively sidelined. Rhymes guideline, tideline Definition of sideline in US English: sideline nounˈsaɪdˌlaɪnˈsīdˌlīn 1An activity done in addition to one's main job, especially to earn extra income. （尤指挣取外快的）副业，兼职 as modifier a sideline career as a stand-up comic 一份做单人说笑喜剧演员的兼职工作。 Example sentencesExamples For three decades his sideline as a UFO writer/publisher generated extra income and self-satisfaction. We all had little writing sidelines for extra cash and Rick's was American sports. The majority of these tenants had a sideline farming activity going for income tax purposes. It used to be a popular sideline for miners working shifts, but the collapse of the coal industry has been accompanied by a huge shortfall in retained firefighters. It was in 1835 that he published his first collection of three children's stories, a venture he considered a sideline but which would actually make his name. But music was little more than a sideline, and he earned his living in government service. My chauffeur from Edinburgh airport had even started a sideline in temporary accommodation for visiting golfers. He is a meteorologist in Florida with a sideline in helping lightning-strike victims. John, who like many rural undertakers had a sideline in the building trade, was born and bred in Bourton. A long career in the music industry beckoned, with a secret sideline in writing songs (and that law-degree safety net). He and his first wife lived in Roundway Park and he had a sideline in collecting fallen timber at Leipzig Plantation on Roundway Down and selling it for firewood. Keggs - suspected in the servants' hall of being a socialist at heart - has a profitable sideline in showing visitors round Belpher Castle. In the meantime, her income is buttressed by a lucrative sideline as the official face of L' Oréal. After serving in the Royal Navy in India, he went into business in Cambridge, with psychical research as his main sideline. While pursuing his rock career, he had a sideline directing horror-inspired rock videos. James installed a darkroom in his Silverstream home and took up professional photography as a sideline to his architecture. Johannes trades in buffaloes as a sideline to his regular employment as a veterinary officer. Adam, who studied engineering product design at South Bank University, does acting work as a sideline to earn money. At the time Moran had a lucrative sideline buying and selling houses in London. But Coates - also professor of architecture at the Royal College of Art - has long had a sideline in unconventional furniture design. Synonyms secondary occupation, second job, side job, subsidiary 1.1 An auxiliary line of goods or business. 兼售的货类；附带的贸易 electronic handbooks are a lucrative sideline for the firm 电子手册是这家公司赚钱的附带商品。 Example sentencesExamples The transfer of surveillance technology from first to third world is now a lucrative sideline for the arms industry. Although it started as a sideline to their farm, it's now taken over as their primary business. Even more exciting is the band's new sideline in designing female undergarments embossed with the band's logo. The sideline to Diageo's main activities brought some R22m a year to the group's consolidated operating profit. If you have already integrated a vegetarian sideline in your food service operation, you are already a step ahead. Across Europe, gigantic music stores stuffed to the gunwales with American pop, rock and urban do a sideline in hipster books. CACI is a fast-growing billion dollar information technology firm with an intriguing sideline in intelligence. Bolton-by-Bowland Post Office opened a tearoom as a sideline to subsidise the existing operation. For generations, retail firearm dealers have found hunting clothes and other outdoor garb to he a profitable sideline. But the new owners were Fang Brothers, a Hong Kong-based textiles conglomerate with a sideline in sweater-making. That estimate doesn't include any contribution from Allete's sideline in sales of the 20,000 Florida acres it owns. That's the concept behind Offshore, a tidy little coffee palace with a neat sideline in furniture sales. He sells the devices as a sideline to his Electron Electrical Engineering Services reselling business. Early Mercedes were very solid, but there was very little buyer interest In the Midwest where we were pushing them as a sideline to Studebaker. A former deep sea diver and merchant banker, he used to run a computer company with a sideline in adult games. Beekeeping is a lucrative sideline for chestnut growers, as is selling the bolitus edulis growing under trees. As a sideline to their regular account work, McCall and his team kicked around the idea of creating an educational album leveraging music to help kids learn. 2usually sidelinesEither of the two lines bounding the longer sides of a football field, basketball court, tennis court, or similar playing area. （足球场、篮球场等的）边线 Example sentencesExamples It's not a daily occurrence that a football flies to the sidelines to hit innocent victims! It seems his best plays come when he's running for his life and sprinting toward a sideline. Woodson was second on the scene and had a chance to two-hand-shove Crayton, who was tiptoeing along the sideline, out of bounds. Feagles, who has wowed the team with his ability to launch high, long punts near either sideline or the goal line, might make the biggest difference. He knows how to play in the middle of the field and work the sidelines. You ended up being forced out of bounds on most of the plays that went toward the sidelines. Every ball they hit into attack was landing in that 30-metre zone around goal, while anything Fermanagh sent into their forwards was too close to the sidelines and left their players with an awful lot to do to score. If you're playing people who don't know the doubles technique, when they hit it up smash it down the sidelines (wide court makes it hard to return) or straight down the middle. Early in the fourth quarter, Holt ran a streak pattern down the left sideline. One problem, however, is that since it is street football, the sidelines aren't marked off very well and you have quite a few instances of accidentally running out of bounds. As they cut across the softball field he saw the maintenance crew setting up the bleachers along what would be the sidelines for the football field used by the semi-pro team that played there each fall. The camera pans from the court to the sidelines where cheerleaders (including Abby) are cheering through all the noise from the supporters. If he crossed the goal line near the sideline, a runner might try to fight his way toward the middle before touching down so as to get a better angle. The Giants on the sideline raced onto the field to celebrate with the kickoff team, drawing an unsportsmanlike conduct penalty, but the emotional lift seemed worth it. Usually, Bird stands on the sideline only when timeouts are called, and even then, it seems like it's against his will. He raced down to the left sideline before crossing into the path of Luther Watson. Jon Barry rises off the bench and maneuvers his way up the sideline toward the scorer's table. Charlie Garner caught a long pass near the sideline and was slammed out of bounds by Jerome Woods. You basically start out at half court, groups of two, and play one on one from the sideline to an imaginary line that divides the court. Folkestone boss Neil Cugley ran on to the pitch to support his players, who surrounded the referee, while a small number of Folkestone fans ran to the sidelines and shouted abuse at the official. 2.1 The area immediately outside either sideline as a place for nonplayers, substitutes, or spectators. （供非运动员、替补队员或观众坐的）场外区域 his son watched from the sidelines See also "on the sidelines" below Example sentencesExamples The national trainer Plamen Markov also could not rely on one of the leaders of the team, Marian Hristov of the German Keiserslautern, who also due to injury had to stick to the sidelines. These actions almost cost their team 15 yards in penalties and the police were called to the sidelines to ensure no further childish antics would occur. I used to skate when I was a kid, but I still have a love for the sport even if it comes from the sidelines as a spectator. I'm not the best of watchers and tend to coach too much from the sidelines because I'd far rather be helping out on the pitch. There were several people who stopped to watch them along the sidelines and the half court line. You'll even find animated coaches and cheerleaders roaming the sidelines. Particularly where the movements are fast and fluid, a coach observing proceedings from the sidelines is in a better position than the captain to analyse the immediate match position and to decide on the tactics to be employed. Instead of observing from the sidelines, he preferred to jump into the game and look for the truth from the midst of the action. Some of the matches were really close and parents, friends and teachers cheered on their teams from the sidelines. Acclaim's attention to detail has even extended to the sidelines, where team mascots jump about and try to get the animated crowd excited. It's not nice watching from the sidelines, and with the game against Telford being postponed I've not played for over two weeks. The worst part about being injured has been watching the games from the sidelines. Today, Holmgren is back to what he does best - patrolling the sidelines, creating strategies and inspiring players. The team walked onto the sidelines and we sat down on the benches that were there. A former useful hurdler before being forced on to the sidelines with injury, The Butterwick Kid got off the mark over fences at Wetherby a fortnight ago. Andrew Kwiatkowski, a former Clansman before transferring to the University of Western Ontario, was to be a member of the squad before a wrist injury forced him to the sidelines. Quarter paced the sidelines while gulping down water out of his Gatorade water bottle and squeezing some of it over his head. The 25-year-old watched from the sidelines during his team's 1-0 victory, blaming the accident for his absence. With lots of cheering and support from the sidelines the game continued under a brilliant blue sky with a slight breeze coming from the Finke River end. Porto advanced with a 1-1 draw in the return encounter at Old Trafford, and Mourinho jumped in joy more than once as he ran down the sidelines to celebrate with his players. verbˈsaɪdˌlaɪnˈsīdˌlīn [with object] 1Cause (a player) to be unable to play in a team or game. 使（运动员）无法参赛 he has been sidelined for the last six weeks with a fractured wrist Example sentencesExamples Young centre back Michael Naylor is the only player likely to be sidelined through injury after missing the midweek victory. When injuries sidelined the big gunners, he played a key role in keeping the team winning. In his second year he fractured two ribs in the third preseason game, sidelining him for a number of games. An operation like this typically sidelines a player anywhere from 4-6 weeks. He was sidelined after just three games last year because of a shoulder injury that required surgery. He is expected to pick up where he left off when sidelined with an ankle injury. Green, currently sidelined by an ankle injury, has the potential to become a major force. Graham's injury is a cruel blow to himself and his team and he's expected to be sidelined for up to six weeks. It was a pity that the game got a bit out of hand in the last quarter and that three players were sidelined. Five starters and nine players overall have been sidelined for stretches of a week or more. This sort of problem would sideline a current player for at least a month, but Butch played through the pain. During the stretch run last season, he was sidelined for three crucial games by the flu and a lack of energy. The other three runners-up all had at least one star player sidelined for more than half the season. The women's team began the year with several of its top gymnasts sidelined with injury. The former Salford player has been sidelined with a chest injury but has been passed fit to face the Cup holders. Taylor played well as a rookie until a shoulder injury sidelined him at midseason. Now with more than half a team sidelined by work and injury, he has been forced to turn to the youth team - and has not ruled himself out of a return. Gavin has been sidelined with a foot injury picked up in the opening pre-season friendly. The condition is one that often lingers for weeks and could sideline a player for a month or more should the tendon snap. His impact would have been greater had a high ankle sprain not sidelined him four of the last six games. 1.1 Remove from the center of activity or attention; place in a less influential position. 〈喻〉使靠边；使降格 a respected lawyer will be sidelined by alcohol abuse Example sentencesExamples However, Jones denied the new structure was aimed at sidelining Bertrand, saying he was being moved into the position to concentrate on the company's refinery upgrade programme. Officials endorsed the decision, but were obviously furious about being effectively sidelined. One of the objectives of these meetings was to reshape the top leadership at the Pentagon, sidelining or removing those who were regarded as moderates. They have become effectively sidelined in the pensions debate. Sources for both companies say Bell was instrumental in getting the deal done, sidelining the lawyers who had failed to agree on a valuation for the joint venture and putting his finance guys out front. Phrases on (or from) the sidelines In (or from) a position where one is observing a situation but is unable or unwilling to be directly involved in it. 当旁观者，当局外人 Example sentencesExamples They were here to dance, not to gawp on the sidelines like tourists. There is no reason why other sports should remain on the sidelines for the next 25 years. So I am grateful for this seat on the sidelines as the choir sings and the march unfolds. Burnley winger Alan Moore faces a lengthy spell on the sidelines after undergoing ankle surgery later today. He was then expected to add to his fan base by winning at Naas last month before a chipped bone put him on the sidelines. Behaviour such as this on the sidelines by parents and other family members should not be tolerated. Koizumi has met with Chinese leaders only on the sidelines of multilateral conferences. Doubtless, officials wanted to stay on the sidelines in the hope that a compromise might be found. A week on the sidelines can do nothing but benefit him and I expect him to come back firing on all cylinders again at Preston. Surgery is expected to go ahead in four weeks' time, leaving Brass on the sidelines at least until the end of the season. noun.1 phr.
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