If someone or something is waiting in the wings , they are not yet active or important , but are ready or likely to be so soon :. The team has several talented young players waiting in the wings. Ready and willing. You can also find related words, phrases, and synonyms in the topics: About to happen. Browse wait for it idiom. Test your vocabulary with our fun image quizzes. Image credits. Word of the Day have a heart of gold. Blog Outsets and onsets! Read More. November 08, To top. Sign up for free and get access to exclusive content:.
Free word lists and quizzes from Cambridge. Tools to create your own word lists and quizzes. Word lists shared by our community of dictionary fans. Sign up now or Log in. France 24 is providing live, round-the-clock coverage of both scenes as they progress. Should lightning strike and Hillary Clinton forgoes a presidential run, Democrats have a nominee in waiting.
Sands was involved in a scandalous-for-the-time romance with the carpenter and there were rumors she was pregnant with his child. Three on-the-record stories from a family: a mother and her daughters who came from Phoenix. This is a guy who has his son-in-law clean his eyeglasses, for crying out loud. Sol laughed out of his whiskers, with a big, loose-rolling sound, and sat on the porch without waiting to be asked.
Sleek finds it far harder work than fortune-making; but he pursues his Will-o'-the-Wisp with untiring energy. Another crash, which nearly shut up his spine like a telescope, told him that there were no wings.
We all rose to our feet, and he shook hands with everybody without waiting to be introduced. At Felipe's cry, the women waiting in the hall hurried in, wailing aloud as their first glance showed them all was over.
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