hurry up and wait (English, verb)
expansion: hurry up and wait (third-person singular simple present hurries up and waits, present participle hurrying up and waiting, simple past and past participle hurried up and waited)
Senses:
glosses: To hurry to complete a task or arrive at a destination by a specified time, only for nothing to happen, due to other requirements that have yet to be satisfied.
tags: humorous
idiomatic
Forms:
form: hurries up and waits
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: hurrying up and waiting
tags: participle
present
form: hurried up and waited
tags: participle
past
form: hurried up and waited
tags: past