you wait

Meaning

1. Editorial50% of films

   Stay where you are, or hold off doing something, until a person, time, or event arrives.

2. Oxford35% of films

   used to emphasize a threat, warning or promise

   You wait, I'll get even.

3. Editorial5% of films

   Take your turn and do not go ahead of other people.

In the movies · 26

• Oh, just you wait! Just you wait! You're gonna pay!The Sword in the Stone1963
• Just you wait, asshole. I'll do something with your time.Once Upon a Time in America1984
• My subconscious seems polite enough Ha, ha. You wait, they'll turn ugly.Inception2010
• Why didn't you wait ...Speak2004
• Then you wait.The Wolf of Wall Street2013
• You... You wait.The Best of Enemies2019
• Why couldn't you wait?Another Year2010
• You wait, I'll get even.Cruella2021

Learn it in full scenes

• The Wolf of Wall Street2013
  • Jordan Belfort Introduces Himself
  • Jordan's First Lunch with Mark Hanna
  • Black Monday Crushes Jordan's Career
• Another Year2010
  • A Woman Asks for Sleeping Pills
  • Janet Rates Her Happiness
  • Mary Confides in Gerri Over Drinks

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
• what are you waiting for

More idioms

• seeing that
• in fairness
• keep your head
• only just
• to date
• i must say
• keep going
• anything can happen
• by choice
• on call
• on second thoughts
• be nothing to