what are you waiting for

Meaning

1. Oxford100% of films

   used to tell sb to do sth now rather than later

In the movies · 48

• Move! What are you waiting for?Black Widow2021
• What are you waiting for? Get out! Get out!The Mummy1999
• Well, what are you waiting for?The Super Mario Bros. Movie2023
• What are you waiting for?The Guest2014
• What are you waiting for?Firebird2021
• What are you waiting for?Scream2022
• What are you waiting for?Coffee and Cigarettes2004
• What are you waiting for?The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King2003

Learn it in full scenes

• The Super Mario Bros. Movie2023
  • Spike Mocks the Mario Brothers
  • Mario and Luigi's First Job
  • Mario's Family Doubts the Dream

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 we waiting for
• you wait

More idioms

• get in the way of
• all along
• other than
• once again
• come to think of it
• take your time
• come true
• on your mind
• as if
• take care
• in that case
• no wonder