| 词汇 | wait out |
| 释义 | Idiom wait outwait (someone) out to allow time to go past until someone does something.I have time and he doesn't, so I'll wait him out until he agrees to sell the business to me.She hoped to wait out her opponent, but that has not worked. Phr V wait out waits, waiting, waited wait out sth or wait sth out (never passive) to wait until something unpleasant has endedThere will be a long period of negotiation, but we're willing to wait it out. wait out sth • wait sth out to wait until something unpleasant has finished: Jim and Huck waited out the storm in a cave on Jackson's island.wait it out (=wait until something unpleasant has finished) I'm sure she won't be angry with you forever. The best thing you can do is wait it out.■ SIMILAR TO: sit out wait outTo wait to take action until something else subsides or ends. A noun or pronoun can be used between "wait" and "out." We decided to stay at the restaurant and wait out the storm. wait something outto wait until something ends. I will wait the summer out, and if nothing happens, I'll write again. I can wait out the storm inside. wait outDelay until the end of something, as in They waited out the war in Paris. This expression comes from baseball, where it alludes to the batter refraining from swinging at pitches in the hope of being walked (getting to first base on balls). It was first recorded in 1909 and was transferred to other activities by the 1930s. wait outv. To delay until the termination of something: I waited out the war in the countryside. The baseball team waited the storm out and resumed playing an hour later. |
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