wait at table

Meaning

1. to serve food to people, for example at a formal meal

In the movies · 11

• We need someone to wait tables.Ratatouille2007
• I had a job waiting tables once, on a riverboat.Lonesome Dove1989
• I waited on tables. I worked in a massage parlor. I did phone sex.Mighty Aphrodite1995
• Ah, bueno. There's no shame in waiting tables.In the Heights2021
• Last job I had before I offed was waiting tables.Wristcutters: A Love Story2007
• Driving taxis, waiting on tables, anything to make a dollar.Key Largo1948
• And why, may I ask, can I not wait at the table?Hello, Dolly!1969
• -What? -We never have to wait for a table.The Bad Guys2022

Learn it in full scenes

• Mighty Aphrodite1995
  • Lenny and Amanda Debate a Baby
  • Lenny and Amanda Name the Baby
  • Lenny and Amanda's Hamptons Fight

From the same entry

• an accident disaster waiting to happen
• I, they, can't wait hardly wait
• keep waiting
• wait and see
• wait for it
• wait a minute
• wait on hand and foot
• wait tables
• wait till
• what are we waiting for
• what are you waiting for
• you wait