wait around
wait about BrE

Kids wait around for their parents to come home from work.

"I believe we do not have another four years to wait around."

You want to wait around for someone else to show up?

No more waiting around for someone to let us inside.

No need to wait around to see if the plans worked.

Do not wait around for this girl to change her mind.

All I had to do now was wait around until they gave up.

I'd been on the move all day, not waiting around for someone else to do something.

I did not wait around to learn what happened next.

But do we really want to wait around for it to happen?

I mean, why did we have to wait around all this time?

"Some of us have been waiting around out here a lot longer."

There was no reason why anyone should or would wait around the place.

And we're certainly not going to wait around for months while a known problem is out there.

Others are not waiting around to be bought out by the government.

Many are not waiting around to see if things improve.

Something great may just be waiting around the next corner, you know?

No more waiting around for them to end their discussion.

Rather than you taking a bus, why not wait around for me?

Whatever; we're not going to wait around here to find out.

Even if it did, he was hardly about to wait around.

"You want to wait around for their friends to join us?"

Workers spent much of the day waiting around for materials they needed.

Why would he wait around and take chances any longer?