wait at table

Idioms  

1. Also, wait on table. Serve at a meal, as in She got a summer job at a resort waiting at table, or Waiting on table usually does not pay very well. [Mid-1500s] Also see wait on.

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wait at table

Mr Karim was just 24 when he arrived in England from Agra to wait at table during Queen Victoria's golden jubilee in 1887 - four years after Mr Brown's death.

From BBC ● Mar. 14, 2011

So when it came to the hour of supper, it was with some show of grace that I was enabled to wait at table, and take my part in the management of the dishes thereupon.

From The Men of the Moss-Hags Being a history of adventure taken from the papers of William Gordon of Earlstoun in Galloway by Crockett, S. R. (Samuel Rutherford)

The sole sign of deference that we could discover was that the landlord and Paco had put on their best coats in which to wait at table.

From The Fortunate Isles Life and Travel in Majorca, Minorca and Iviza by Boyd, Mary Stuart

It was Martha's duty to wait at table, and there had been many trying scenes and defeated efforts toward her education.

From The Queen's Twin and Other Stories by Jewett, Sarah Orne

He had no longer to wait at table during meals.

From The House of Walderne A Tale of the Cloister and the Forest in the Days of the Barons' Wars by Crake, A. D. (Augustine David)