wait for Godot

present singular third person waits for Godot · participle present waiting for Godot · participle past waited for Godot · past waited for Godot

1. idiomaticTo wait hopelessly.

   We are waiting not for a Godot, but for another ­– doubtless very different – St. Benedict.

   1984, Alasdair MacIntyre, After Virtue, University of Notre Dame Press, →ISBN, page 263

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   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.

   2000, Susan Estrich, Sex and Power, Riverhead Books, →ISBN, page 96