1. wait and see - Adjective
2. wait and see - Verb
wait and see (third-person singular simple present waits and sees, present participle waiting and seeing, simple past waited and saw, past participle waited and seen)
(intransitive) To await the course of events before taking action.
wait-and-see (not comparable)
Tending to observe events before coming to a decision.
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Let us not be content to wait and see what will happen, but give us the determination to make the right things happen. Horace Mann
It is absurd to think that the only way to tell if a poem is lasting is to wait and see if it lasts. The right reader of a good poem can tell the moment it strikes him that he has taken an immortal woundthat he will never get over it. Robert Frost
We decide on something, leave it lying around and wait and see what happens. If no one kicks up a fuss, because most people don't understand what has been decided, we continue step by step until there is no turning back. Jean-Claude Juncker
Wait and see whether the religion of the Servile State is not in every case what I say: the encouragement of small virtues supporting capitalism, the discouragement of the huge virtues that defy it. G. K. Chesterton
He may say that he loves you, wait and see what he does for you. Senegalese Proverb
You dont throw stones at an approching craclin noise in the bush wait and see what is it first. Swahili Proverb