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wait and see
Idioms and Phrases
Bide one's time for events to run their course, as in Do you think they'll raise taxes?—We'll have to wait and see . This expression was first recorded in Daniel Defoe's Robinson Crusoe (1719): “We had no remedy but to wait and see.” In Britain the phrase became associated with Prime Minister H.H. Asquith, who in 1910 so often said it to the opposition regarding an impending bill that he became known as “Old Wait and See.”Example Sentences
We’ll have to wait and see how much more tightly Musk merges the operations of X and xAI to better understand how things will be run.
I made a mental note, crossed my fingers that it would go well and just decided to wait and see what happened.
“Hopefully, you’ll know pretty quick — is this something we can get done in the here and now? Or do we have to … wait and see how the movie ends,” Pastoors said.
After that, it was a lot of wait and see — growing the cutting and creating more cuttings to see if the rose would consistently produce the same pink flowers, with the same lovely fragrance, foliage, disease resistance and vigor.
For now, the close to 4.9 million people using Medicaid for addiction treatment will have to wait and see if they are impacted.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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