wait on

"You become old when you sit down and expect to be waited on," he told fellow senior actors on the travel show Grandpas over Flowers.

So, the tense process of the Treasury waiting on every bit of number crunching from the OBR will happen only in the run up to a full Budget.

As workers cleaned his Toyota Camry, a retired history professor waited on a bench, reading a biography of Ulysses S. Grant.

All kinds of firms have told me they are waiting on the Budget before deciding to hire more people, invest in new machines or buildings or expand their operations.

Tension pushed into every corner of the room, the way it does when no one knows what to say or how to say it and everyone is waiting on someone to speak.