wait for it
UK informalDefinition
› to not start until the correct moment: Wait for it! I haven't said 'go' yet.WaitingStaying and remainingExpressions telling people to stop doing something › You say 'wait for it' to show that you are about to say something surprising, funny, or difficult to believe: The new soap opera will be screened, wait for it, five times each day.Expressions of surprise
(Definition of wait for it from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus
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Synonyms and related words:
- await verb
- hang around (somewhere) phrasal verb
- hang on phrasal verb (WAIT)
- hold off phrasal verb (NOT DO)
- hold out for sth phrasal verb
- hover verb
- mill around phrasal verb
- queue verb
- ready adjective (PREPARED)
- sit back phrasal verb (WAITING)
- sit sth out phrasal verb (SITUATION)
- stand by phrasal verb (BE READY)
- stand verb (PLACE)
- wait for sb/sth phrasal verb
- wait in phrasal verb
- wait on sth phrasal verb
- wait sth out phrasal verb
- wait up phrasal verb
- wait your turn idiom
- waiting room noun
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