wait tables

Meaning

1. Oxford100% of films

   to work serving food to people in a restaurant

   Last job I had before I offed was waiting tables.

In the movies · 4

• Ah, bueno. There's no shame in waiting tables.In the Heights2021
• Waiting tables.Fight Club1999
• Last job I had before I offed was waiting tables.Wristcutters: A Love Story2007
• We need someone to wait tables.Ratatouille2007
• I had a job waiting tables once, on a riverboat.Lonesome Dove1989
• But she worked really hard, and she studied, and she earned her real estate license while she was waiting tables to support us.Crazy Rich Asians2018
• I waited on tables. I worked in a massage parlor. I did phone sex.Mighty Aphrodite1995
• You'd have your own table waiting at all times.The Big Chill1983

Learn it in full scenes

• Fight Club1999
  • Tyler Holds a Gun on Jack
  • Narrator Cries at Support Groups
  • Narrator and Marla Expose Each Other
• 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 at table
• wait for it
• wait a minute
• wait on hand and foot
• wait till
• what are we waiting for
• what are you waiting for
• you wait