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can't wait
Idioms and Phrases
Be very eager, anxious, or impatient, as in We can't wait for the baseball season to begin or I can't wait to see Dadâit's been a year . While the literal sense of being unable to wait (for lack of time) is much older, this figurative usage dates only from about 1930.Example Sentences
âIâm super happy to have joined a team thatâs so amazing with incredible women. Weâve done amazing things so far and we canât wait to continue.â
Liam on Everton's stadium move: I have not actually been to the new ground yet, purposely, because I want to see it in full flow, at our first home game of next season - I can't wait.
And as conservatives determine their fate, those on the side of justice canât wait to act.
Thereâs a fight right up at the top where Levon swings a bucket of nails into a gangsterâs face, and after that, his character defaults to his special-ops training: He canât wait to get to waterboarding.
"To tour as a player and now as a coach, knowing the group of players that we have the potential of working with, is something that I can't wait to get stuck into," he said.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American HeritageŸ Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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