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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.Discover More
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"I can't wait for her to sing Abracadabra, it's great to dance to, like her early stuff," he said.
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I can’t wait to see how Jeannie Buss and Rob Pelinka mess up next year’s lineup.
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I can’t wait to take punches for you in 2025.
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I can't wait for this next movie to come out.
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"Can't wait to wake up with you babes!"
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from 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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