wait in the wings

== English == === Pronunciation === === Verb === wait in the wings (third-person singular simple present waits in the wings, present participle waiting in the wings, simple past and past participle waited in the wings) (idiomatic) To be about to become important or central. === See also === -in-waiting === Further reading === “be waiting in the wings” in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English, Longman. “in the wings”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022. “wait in the wings”, in Cambridge English Dictionary, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: Cambridge University Press, 1999–present.