W
Idioms beginning with "W"
Part of speech, explanation, example sentences, pronunciation
No categories:
Contents of W:
[wait up] {v. phr.}
To not go to bed until a person one is worried about comes home (said by parents and marriage partners).
My mother always waited up for me when I went out as a young student.
* /She always waits up for her husband when he's out […]
[waiting list] {n.}
A list of persons waiting to get into something (as a school).
The nursery school enrollment was complete, so the director put our child's name on the waiting list.
* /The landlord said there were no vacant apartments […]
[waiting room] {n. phr.}
The sitting area in a doctor's, lawyer's, accountant's, etc. office, or in a hospital, or other workplace, where people wait their turn.
* /Some doctor's offices have elegantly furnished waiting rooms with magazines, […]
[walk a tightrope] {v. phr.}
To be in a dangerous or awkward situation where one cannot afford to make a single mistake.
"When we landed on the moon in 1969," Armstrong explained, "we were walking a tightrope till the very end."
[walk away with] or [walk off with] {v.}
1. To take and go away with; take away; often: steal.
When Father went to work, he accidentally walked off with Mother's umbrella.
How can a thief walk off with a safe in broad daylight?
2. To take, […]
[walk of life] {n. phr.}
Way of living; manner in which people live.
Many rich people have yachts; people in their walk of life can afford them.
The banker did not want his son to marry a girl in a different walk of life.
* /People from every […]