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waiting game
noun
- a stratagem in which action on a matter is reserved for or postponed to a later time, allowing one to wait for a more advantageous time to act or to see what develops in the meantime.
waiting game
noun
- the postponement of action or decision in order to gain the advantage
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Word History and Origins
Origin of waiting game1
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Idioms and Phrases
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Example Sentences
Many in the room felt like they were caught in a waiting game, yet few were in the mood to wait.
The nightmare waiting game Charlene and her husband, Robert, now find themselves in began on a night that remains vague at best.
“Kate has played a brilliant waiting game,” says one royal source.
It was now a waiting game, and no one knew what the next few days would bring.
More couples than ever are playing the waiting game, a game that, for women, is something of a gamble.
The Indian is a great hand at playing a waiting game and Yellow Elk was no exception to this rule.
Thus did he first learn how much better than men women play a waiting game.
We could see that it was a waiting game that Don Rafael was playing.
Stenovics's mind excelled in the waiting game, the slow, tortuous approach, the inch-by-inch advance of leisurely diplomacy.
The thought that the tedious waiting game which he had played so long might be ended did not elate him.
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