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in wait
Idioms and Phrases
see lie in wait .Example Sentences
Mariah, 37, who declined to give her last name, said she and her husband are in "wait and see" mode as they figure out the best course of action for their retirement savings and their family of six.
Except Affleck’s door came with paparazzi lying in wait, and a story was born.
Mr Justice Humphreys said the experienced soldiers lying in wait at the church would have known the men would need to dismount the machine gun and in that scenario the ability to arrest them would have improved.
He then went to his car to collect a crossbow, before returning and lying in wait for Louise Hunt, who was running her dog grooming business in a pod in the garden.
There’s enough there for any decent horror filmmaker to tease out, especially a director with the eye for detail and mood that gave “Longlegs” its aura of hidden abnormality and a timeless evil lying in wait.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
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