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

Mossoo Platzoff don't like advertising for servants, and Mr. Cleon is at a loss where to find a fellow that can wait at table and has some manners about him.

From The Argosy Vol. 51, No. 6, June, 1891 by Charles W. Wood

He looked hard at Owen as he entered, supposing that he had come to receive some orders, or to wait at table.

From Owen Hartley; or, Ups and Downs A Tale of Land and Sea by William Henry Giles Kingston

"We are having some friends to dine with us on the twenty-fourth, Mr. Green, and want you to come and help to wait at table, as usual."

From Mr. Punch's After-Dinner Stories by J. A. (John Alexander) Hammerton

One day, Mary, having a bad fit of toothache, I had to wait at table.

From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, No. 22, March, 1852, Volume 4. by