English Explanatory Dictionary

waiting to happen

English dictionary entry

Meanings

phrase
  1. Bound to happen; almost certain to occur in the future.

Word forms

waiting to happen

Etymology

Modeled after accident waiting to happen and disaster waiting to happen; more generic uses outside of those phrases apparently started decades later, c. 1960s.

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