what are we waiting for

Meaning

1. Oxford100% of films

   used to suggest that you should all start doing what you have been discussing

   What are we waiting for? Let's do it.

In the movies · 9

• - Come on! What are we waiting for? - Okay, I'm ready.12 Angry Men1957
• Hey, come on! What are we waiting for? Open up, will you?The Apartment1960
• What are we waiting for? Let's do it.The Fly1986
• What are we waiting for?The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring2001
• What are we waiting forBlack Adam2022
• What are we waiting for?The Fall Guy2024
• What are we waiting for?The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King2003
• Well, what are we waiting for?The House with a Clock in Its Walls2018

Learn it in full scenes

• 12 Angry Men1957
  • Jurors Gather in the Jury Room
  • Juror 8 Votes Not Guilty
  • The Jurors Go Around the Table
• The Apartment1960
  • Baxter Swaps His Apartment Nights
  • Sheldrake Grills Baxter About the Key
  • Baxter Meets Fran at the Theatre

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 tables
• wait till
• what are you waiting for
• you wait

More idioms

• see coming
• a breath of fresh air
• make love
• be barking up the wrong tree
• be for a good cause
• bring to life
• carry too far
• get off the ground
• have a thing about
• no thanks to
• work like a charm
• have a fit