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Idioms and Phrases

Be very eager, anxious, or impatient, as in We can't wait for the baseball season to begin or I can't wait to see Dad—it's been a year . While the literal sense of being unable to wait (for lack of time) is much older, this figurative usage dates only from about 1930.

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

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