wait for Godot
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[edit]Refers to the surreal comic play Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett, in which two tramps engage in a variety of discussions and encounters while awaiting "Godot", who never arrives.
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[edit]wait for Godot (third-person singular simple present waits for Godot, present participle waiting for Godot, simple past and past participle waited for Godot)
- (idiomatic) To wait hopelessly.
- 2000, Susan Estrich, Sex and Power, Riverhead Books, →ISBN, page 96:
- But waiting for the connection between gender and parenting to be broken is waiting for Godot; pretending that children have no impact on a woman's career is turning the exception into the rule.
- 1984, Alasdair MacIntyre, After Virtue, University of Notre Dame Press, →ISBN, page 263:
- We are waiting not for a Godot, but for another – doubtless very different – St. Benedict.