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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Example Sentences

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

Fernand, however, is his superior in every sense; can keep plantation accounts, wait at table, drive a carriage, or help in a hunt.

From The Death Shot A Story Retold by Reid, Mayne

Among other duties, a sizar had, with some of the scholars, to wait at table, a service not abolished until 6th May 1786.

From St. John's College, Cambridge by New, E. H. (Edmund Hort)

The steward and I had to wait at table.

From Dick Cheveley His Adventures and Misadventures by Groome, William H. C.

When I helped to wait at table, I saw that the count was always ready for a quarrel with his son, who could never say or do a single thing to please him.

From L'Arrabiata and Other Tales by Heyse, Paul