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I've heard and used "sit and spin" COUNTLESS times, since the early 90s. Maybe it's an older phrase that doesn't get used anymore, or at least by younger generations, but it's a definite common phrase, at least in Tennessee.In general I think it's OK. It definitely doesn't sound like a native English speaker, but usually it's all right. There are clearly some things that sound quite a bit off, like "It's the same as judging people by skin color or sexual identity. All those claims, as well as the claimers, should sit and spin right away!" Both claims and claimers wouldn't really be used here, but at least it's understandable. However, I have never heard any idiom remotely similar to "sit and spin right away". I'm assuming this is meant to be something like "piss right off", but it's definitely strange. I'm not volunteering, but they do need someone to help them out.
The one that baffles me is "in a few time." That's obviously a mistake due to a literal translation from one language to another, which almost never works out properly. We say "a few times" or "in a few" or "in a few minutes" or "a bit later" or "at a later time."