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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?鈥擶e'll have to wait and see . This expression was first recorded in Daniel Defoe's Robinson Crusoe (1719): 鈥淲e had no remedy but to wait and see.鈥 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 鈥淥ld Wait and See.鈥Example Sentences
If you think about where both clubs want to go, and also how they might comply with the Premier League's profit and sustainability rules while they try to get there, then Champions League football is imperative - let's wait and see what the next few weeks bring.
United's whole campaign is still hanging on what happens in the Europa League and we will have to wait and see whether their incredible late comeback to beat Lyon on Thursday to reach the semi-finals changes anything about their awful Premier League form.
鈥淏ut we鈥檙e just going to have to wait and see.鈥
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.
"Hopefully now they'd realise I'm not a Venezuelan gangster but I've seen crazier things happen in the news recently, so we're just going to wait and see."
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Definitions and idiom definitions from 亚洲网紅露点 Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, 漏 Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage庐 Idioms Dictionary copyright 漏 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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