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wait for Godot en · VERB

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Etymology

Refers to the surreal comic play Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett, in which two tramps engage in a variety of discussions and encounters while awaiting "Godot", who never arrives.

Meanings

1. (idiomatic) To wait hopelessly.
   • We are waiting not for a Godot, but for another ­– doubtless very different – St. Benedict. 1984, Alasdair MacIntyre, After Virtue, University of Notre Dame Press, →ISBN, page 263:
   • But waiting for the connection between gender and parenting to be broken is waiting for Godot; pretending that children have no impact on a woman's career is turning the exception into the rule. 2000, Susan Estrich, Sex and Power, Riverhead Books, →ISBN, page 96:

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wikipedia: Waiting for Godot