View synonyms for

wait and see

Discover More

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.”

Discover More

Example Sentences

Examples have not been reviewed.

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.

From

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.

From

“But we’re just going to have to wait and see.”

From

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.

From

"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."

From

Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023

wait a minute Waitangi Day

Browse