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

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.

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"You don't mean to tell me that this little girl is fit to wait at table!"

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His duties were multifarious, though light—he cleaned the silver and shined the boots, and helped to lay the cloth and wait at table.

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One day a young man and a small boy came to me for protection: the case was a bad one, and I at once took them into my service as the best way of settling the difficulty, the young man as a gardener and the boy to work in the kitchen and wait at table; both were named “Chowba,” i.e. big; a name as common out there as John in England.

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He had on a shirt-front and a black suit, in order to wait at table at the wedding-breakfast.

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