Idiom
waiting game
Meaning
A strategy or course of action in which one or more parties refrain from direct action until circumstances change in their favor.
Meaning adapted from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Examples
“We cannot act yet, so we must play the waiting game.”
“The investors decided to play the waiting game until the market conditions improved.”
“Rather than reacting impulsively to the crisis, the diplomat chose to play the waiting game, confident that time would eventually force the opposition to negotiate.”
Examples
simple
“We cannot act yet, so we must play the waiting game.”
contextual
“The investors decided to play the waiting game until the market conditions improved.”
complex
“Rather than reacting impulsively to the crisis, the diplomat chose to play the waiting game, confident that time would eventually force the opposition to negotiate.”
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