play a waiting game
Example Sentences
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But KKR has been forced to play a waiting game as Telecom Italia overhauled its management, ousting its fourth chief executive in six years after a string of profit warnings.
From Reuters ● Feb. 22, 2022
This kind of patience is only available when your owner has no need to cash in and, in a fast-moving sport where fans demand instant results, knows how to play a waiting game.
From The Guardian ● Dec. 15, 2017
The British government, although quietly outraged by Ecuador’s actions in offering shelter to Assange, have decided not to make a diplomatic row out of the affair, content to play a waiting game instead.
From Newsweek ● Feb. 8, 2013
The Mariners might be willing to play a waiting game, offer him a four-or-five-year deal, but even that would be gamble.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 11, 2012
In this dilemma they determined to play a waiting game, and when the time came for action, to throw their weight on the winning side.
From Stories from Thucydides by H. L. (Herbert Lord) Havell
