Noun
waiting game (plural waiting games)
(idiomatic) A strategy or course of action in which one or more parties refrain from direct action until circumstances change in their favor.
You can't manufacture inspiration, so a lot of it is still a waiting game for me. There's still a lot of mystery to songwriting. I don't have a method that I can go back to - they either come or they don't. Conor Oberst
Even though calls for postponement of the 2020 edition of the T20 World Cup have grown in the last couple of months, the ICC has preferred to play the waiting game and is yet to make an official announcement on the fate of the showpiece event. Source: Internet
Anyone who expects people in power to acknowledge sins of the past as they make attempts to level the playing field is playing a fool’s waiting game. Source: Internet
But the waiting game followed Johnson to the XFL. Source: Internet
And so, in Paris, begins a cat-and-mouse waiting game as Grace's web of deception and lies unravels and she becomes another young woman entirely. Source: Internet
But other times, cooking is a waiting game, not a panicked rush. Source: Internet