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wait in the wings

to be about to become important or central
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Submitted on July 10, 2018

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The translation of "wait in the wings" to French is "attendre dans les coulisses."

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Some more phrases from our dictionary similar to wait in the wings

wait onwait forwait onwait for the other shoe to dropwait on someone hand and footif pigs had wings they would flywait upwait onwait for itwait for the other shoe to dropwait onjust you wait and see!wait on someone hand, foot and fingerlie in wait

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