wait in the wings
If someone or something is waiting in the wings, they are not yet active or important, but are ready or likely to be so soon:
The team has several talented young players waiting in the wings.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Ready and willing
- agreeable
- amenable
- at sb's beck and call idiom
- at your command idiom
- be good to go idiom
- command
- disposed
- eager
- fain
- find it in your heart to do sth idiom
- game
- gamely
- keen
- prepared
- raring
- readily
- readiness
- ready
- shape
- speed
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About to happen