wait for it

idiom

chiefly British, informal

—used to emphasize that the following statement is foolish, surprising, funny, etc.

He says he was fired because—wait for it—he refused to compromise his principles.

Examples of wait for it in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web Harris is the daughter of, wait for it, immigrants! —

Lorraine Ali, Los Angeles Times, 1 Aug. 2024 The company estimates that the ZR1's top speed is ... wait for it ... 215 miles per hour. —

Nathan Bomey, Axios, 26 July 2024 Back in October 2022, Twitter was in uproar about another new aesthetic that had supposedly dropped, dubbed – wait for it – Warm Girl. —

Jessica Cullen, refinery29.com, 22 Jan. 2024 Much to the confusion of Tom Selleck fans everywhere, production company Awesomeness is developing a new TV show about vampires called — wait for it — Blue Bloods. —

Andy Swift, TVLine, 16 July 2024 See all Example Sentences for wait for it

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