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A list of phrases related to the word "wait"...
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Accident waiting to happen
All things come to he who
waits
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At long last
Bear with me
Better to
remain
silent and be thought a fool that to speak and remove all doubt
Bide
your time
Clock watching
Come to a screeching
halt
Crying Waiting Hoping ( Buddy Holly song )
Don't hold your breath
Fashionably late
Go to a neutral corner
Good things come to those who wait ( Guinness advertising slogan )
Gotta
Serve
Somebody ( Bob Dylan song )
Grind to a
halt
Half a jiffy
Half a mo
Half a second
Hang about
Hang back
Hang fire
Hang on
Hang on a minute
Hang time
Hanging on the telephone
Heart attack waiting to happen
Heaven Can Wait ( Warren Beatty movie )
Hold fast
Hold on
Hold on a minute
Hold out for
Hold that thought
Hold the phone
Hold your breath
Hold your horses
Holding pattern
How may I
serve
you?
Hurry up and wait
If drafted, I will not run; if nominated, I will not accept; if elected, I will not
serve
In the meantime
It is better to
remain
silent at the risk of being thought a fool, than to talk and remove all doubt of it ( Maurice Switzer quotation )
Just a question of time
Kick your heels
Kill time
Kill time until time kills you
Lie in wait
Mark time
No man can
serve
two masters
Not so fast
One moment please
One second
Patience is a virtue
Play a waiting game
Please hold the line
Pregnant
pause
Pull your
weight
Punching above his
weight
Ready and waiting ( alert and prepared for action )
Right off the bat ( A baseball expression meaning immediately without
delay
)
Serve
and protect
Serve
your time
Sit it out
Sit on your hands
Sit tight
Sleep on it
Stand by
Stood up
Take the
weight
off your feet
Taste, not waist (
Weight
Watchers Frozen Meals advertising slogan )
The Human Rain
Delay
( Nickname of Mike Hargrove )
The
Waiter
( Nickname of Toni Kukoc )
The clock is ticking
The patience of Job
The
pause
that refreshes ( Coca Cola advertising slogan )
The wait is over
They also
serve
who only stand and wait ( from a poem by Milton )
Throw your
weight
about
Time and tide wait for no man
Time on your hands
Time to kill
Time
waits
for no man
Twist in the wind
Victory won't wait for the nation that's late ( Big Ben Clocks advertising slogan )
Wait in line
Wait just a cotton picking minute
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Waiter, there's a fly in my soup
Waiting by the phone
Waiting for Godot ( play by Samuel Beckett )
Waiting for Mr Right
Waiting for the other shoe to drop
Waiting in the wings
Waits
at the window, wearing the face that she keeps in a jar by the door ( Beatles song lyric )
Watched pot never boils
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Watching the clock
Watching your
weight
We will cross that bridge when we come to it
Weight
off my mind
While away the hours
While away the time
Worth one's
weight
in gold
You cannot
serve
God and Mammon
You have the right to
remain
silent