bide one's time 的定义
- Wait for the opportune moment, as in The cat sat in front of the mousehole, biding its time. This phrase employs the verb to bide in the sense of “to wait for,” a usage dating from about a.d. 950 and surviving mainly in this locution.
bide one's time 近义词
等同于 sit tight
等同于 wait
bide one's time 的近义词 39 个
- await
- delay
- expect
- hang
- linger
- remain
- stand by
- stay
- stick around
- watch
- abide
- anticipate
- bide
- dally
- foresee
- stall
- tarry
- cool it
- fill time
- hang around
- hang onto your hat
- hang out
- hold back
- hold everything
- hold on
- hold the phone
- hole up
- keep shirt on
- lie in wait
- lie low
- look for
- look forward to
- mark time
- put on hold
- save it
- sit tight
- sit up for
- stay up for
- sweat it
bide one's time 的反义词 12 个
等同于 mark time
bide one's time 的近义词 7 个
等同于 tread water
等同于 wait and see
bide one's time 的近义词 3 个
更多bide one's time例句
- Since the 1950s, fluoride has adapted itself to the prevailing concerns of the time.
- Added to drinking water at concentrations of around one part per million, fluoride ions stick to dental plaque.
- In his view, a writer has only one duty: to be present in his books.
- Yet this, in the end, is a book from which one emerges sad, gloomy, disenchanted, at least if we agree to take it seriously.
- But give the Kingdom credit for its sense of mercy: The lashes will be administered only 50 at a time.
- Practise gliding in the form of inflection, or slide, from one extreme of pitch to another.
- He alludes to it as one of their evil customs and used by them to produce insensibility.
- There was a rumor that Alessandro and his father had both died; but no one knew anything certainly.
- Truth is a torch, but one of enormous size; so that we slink past it in rather a blinking fashion for fear it should burn us.
- It ended on a complaint that she was 'tired rather and spending my time at full length on a deck-chair in the garden.'