wait out

As for Lord Fredrick, in Miss Lumley’s day, it was the custom for a father-to-be to wait out these sorts of occasions at his gentlemen’s club, where he could smoke a pipe, drink a glass of brandy, talk politics, and so on.

And, at least in theory, giant institutions should be able to survive almost any bear market and wait out any delay in getting their money back; you might not be.

That is a significant about-face from last year, when applications to U.S. business schools surged as American professionals who were frustrated by the white-collar job market tried to wait out sluggish hiring by going back to school.

Rodriguez said he thinks the government is simply trying to put up “a smoke screen to wait out or at least frighten American troops a little bit so they don’t come in. They know it’s a lost cause but they’re trying to buy time.”

Meanwhile, Republican Speaker Mike Johnson of Louisiana sent his caucus home to wait out the shutdown — and to apparently avoid swearing in newly elected Democratic Rep. Adelita Grijalva of Arizona, who represents the final vote needed to pass a discharge petition requiring the release of the Jeffrey Epstein files.