After that, Jones bided her time until the right (big) roles came along.
Force had never lost control, it had only bided its time long enough for people like me to believe otherwise.
So Rice decamped to Turtle Bay, where she bided her time until Jones retired at the NSC.
Kirkwood acceded, perforce; and bided his time with what tolerance he could muster.
He made his camp and bided the arrival of the cattle; but that arrival did not materialize.
In other words, he bided his time, and when he did strike, struck at an unguarded place.
But he bided his time; and when Mr. Hawkins came, then there was a decision pronounced.
She bided her chance like a watchful cat—but it did not come.
But Madison knew what was coming from Maryland, and bided his time.
You went out to Canada against my will, lad, and I bided my time.
Old English bidan "to stay, continue, live, remain," also "to trust, rely" (cognate with Old Norse biða, Old Saxon bidan, Old Frisian bidia, Middle Dutch biden, Old High German bitan, Gothic beidan "to wait"), apparently from PIE *bheidh-, an extended stem of one root of Old English biddan (see bid (v.)), the original sense of which was "to command," and "to trust" (cf. Greek peithein "to persuade," pistis "faith;" Latin fidere "to trust," foedus "compact, treaty," Old Church Slavonic beda "need"). Perhaps the sense evolved in prehistoric times through "endure," and "endure a wait," to "to wait." Preserved in Scotland and northern England, replaced elsewhere by abide in all senses except to bide one's time. Related: Bided; biding.
