mark time

While my Party is out of power, there is nothing left for us but to mark time.

Make rattles of something which you can find, and show how to mark time with them.

Sir Moses and Cuddy Flintoff mounting their chairs to mark time.

Bring guns to position and mark time as if marching rapidly.

My stuffy fruitless trip had decided me to mark time no longer.

He would not or could not keep step in the ranks, nor mark time.

Black meanwhile could really do nothing but mark time with one of his Rooks.

If at half step or mark time while obliquing, Oblique, March.

The dial on the machine must mark time with the clock on the wall.

As the singing proceeds they mark time with their hands and feet.