waiting to happen

短语

英文释义

短语
  1. Bound to happen; almost certain to occur in the future. colloquial
    — an accident waiting to happen, a divorce waiting to happen

词源

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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