can't wait

Idioms  

1. Be very eager, anxious, or impatient, as in We can't wait for the baseball season to begin or I can't wait to see Dad—it's been a year. While the literal sense of being unable to wait (for lack of time) is much older, this figurative usage dates only from about 1930.

---

Example Sentences

See Examples For:

can't wait

I can’t wait to get back to actual football.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 17, 2026

“I can’t wait for Waymo,” she said about the self-driving robotaxis, which aren’t in her city yet.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 11, 2026

"I can't wait for them to tee it up," said European captain Anna Nordqvist.

From BBC ● Sep. 10, 2026

Before their departure, a professor jokingly quips to Dwayne: “I can’t wait to have your child in my class in the year 2014.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 1, 2026

And there’s usually a lineup of kids who can’t wait to be interviewed.

From "Linked" by Gordon Korman