hurry up and wait
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For the candidates, it could be a case of hurry up and wait.
From Washington Times ● Jul. 19, 2022
Time does strange things as we fall into a limbo where we can only hurry up and wait, as the saying goes.
From Salon ● Jun. 4, 2022
If nothing else, attendees flying Southwest can count this time as good practice for the hurry up and wait atmosphere awaiting them outside Hall H.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 20, 2016
The orders come thick and fast: get off the plane, get on the bus, hurry up and wait.
From BBC ● Jul. 31, 2012
After more than a year in Washington, she learned how the massive Washington machinery functioned and why it crawled with a hurry up and wait engine.
From Terminal Compromise: computer terrorism: when privacy and freedom are the victims: a novel by Winn Schwartau
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