waiting room
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Meaning
waiting room (plural waiting rooms)
A room in some public place for people to wait.
Hyponyms: ladies' room, (for women, historical) women's room, (for men, historical) gentlemen's room
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If one were to build the house of happiness, the largest space would be the waiting room.
The first duty of the novelist is to entertain. It is a moral duty. People who read your books are sick, sad, traveling, in the hospital waiting room while someone is dying. Books are written by the alone for the alone.
Some fans get genuinely upset if I admit that a song that they held close to their heart was not based on actual events in my life. Like "What Sarah Said”: I was never in a waiting room in a hospital waiting for news that somebody was going to die.
The netherworld is timeless and unchanging, and boring -- much like a doctor's waiting room.
If my favorite, most comfortable place is by our fireplace in cold weather, expedient places are on an airplane, in a waiting room or even waiting in line; frequently these days, while on the phone having been 'put on hold.'
Amin managed to invite both the US and Soviet ambassadors to his palace at the very same time and then deliberately kept them together in his waiting room.