| 单词 | wait for the other shoe to drop |
| 释义 | wait for the other shoe to dropAwait 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 dropwait 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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