play a waiting game

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play a waiting game 的定义

  1. Delay an action or decision so as to force an opponent to move or to gain additional information. For example, The lawyer advised her to play a waiting game and see if her husband would come up with more alimony. [Late 1800s]

play a waiting game 近义词

play a waiting game

等同于 procrastinate

play a waiting game

等同于 wait and see

play a waiting game 的近义词 3

更多play a waiting game例句

  1. This is going to be the Game of Thrones of U.S. Senate races.
  2. Dora is seen getting dressed as a mermaid by a cursor being manned by some omniscient game player.
  3. Have there been discussions with FX regarding an Archer movie, and how do you think that would play out?
  4. Should lightning strike and Hillary Clinton forgoes a presidential run, Democrats have a nominee in waiting.
  5. ROME — What does it take for a Hollywood A-lister to get a private audience with Pope Francis?
  6. And to tell the truth, she couldn't help wishing he could see, so he could make the game livelier.
  7. I assure you, no matter how beautifully we play any piece, the minute Liszt plays it, you would scarcely recognize it!
  8. Sol laughed out of his whiskers, with a big, loose-rolling sound, and sat on the porch without waiting to be asked.
  9. But I hope at least to play to him a few times, and what is more important, to hear him play repeatedly.
  10. Now-a-days it is the bankrupt who flouts, and his too confiding creditors who are jeered and laughed at.