to wait up for
to wait up for: to wait until late at night without going to bed
Examples of TO WAIT UP FOR
- Would it be terribly rude to wait up for him to chat about his lawn maintenance?
- He said he waited up for a while, but then fell asleep.
to wait up for: to wait until late at night without going to bed
at least: a minimum of, no fewer (or less) than Examples of AT LEAST At least the runner finished his first marathon, even if his time wasn’t very good. You’ll need to know at least two languages to get a job in the new economy.
narrow-minded: not willing to accept the ideas of others Examples of NARROW-MINDED – You should be ashamed of yourself for being so narrow minded and short sighted.– But I think it is rather narrow minded to assume that they are without feeling.
to hand in: to submit or deliver something that is due Examples of TO HAND IN All the sale people hand their weekly reports in on Friday. Every student has to hand in an original composition each week of the semester.
to look forward to: to expect or anticipate with pleasureThis idiom can be followed by a regular noun or a gerund. Examples of TO LOOK FORWARD TO Without a vacation coming up, I have nothing to look forward to. Mark and Kyle were looking forward to a chance to talk.
to take down: to remove from an elevated place; to write what is said, to note Examples of TO TAKE DOWN We should take the pictures down from the wall and clean off the dust. The secretary took down everything that was said at the meeting.
in the blink of an eye: in an extremely short timeExamples: Everything changed in the blink of an eye at Sydney’s Oran Park Raceway in 2008. In the blink of an eye, millions of people lost friends, family, and community.