wait for the other shoe to drop
Await a seemingly inevitable event, as in Now that she has a good enough job to leave her husband, we're just waiting for the other shoe to drop. This expression alludes to a person awakened by a neighbor who loudly dropped one shoe on the floor and is waiting for the second shoe to be dropped. [Early 1900s]
Words Nearby wait for the other shoe to drop
- wait at table
- wait-a-while
- Waite
- waiter
- waitering
- wait for the other shoe to drop
- waiting
- Waiting for Godot
- waiting game
- waiting in the wings
- waiting list
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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