Hurry up and wait

Submitted by Ww Ww on 2017-11-26

Meanings of "Hurry up and wait"

English

Known extensively through military service of the world this expression is old. It is a jovial, a satirical way of saying that you should rush, rush, rush and then only to sit around while delays go on. Idly sitting, laying, standing around without a current purpose.
If you go on holdiday you pack, rush around, race to the airport and then sit around until the aircraft is ready to board. Here we are again...hurry up and wait!

Explained by Ww WwWw Ww on Sun, 26/11/2017 - 02:29
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Greek

σήκω κάτσε

Explained by Guest on Sat, 02/12/2017 - 00:44
Explained by Guest
Greek

Βιάσου αλλά και να έχεις το μυαλό σου

Explained by ΜίλτονΜίλτον on Tue, 18/08/2020 - 13:33
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"Hurry up and wait" in lyrics

The Fray - Look after you

As I'm leaving the one I wanna take
Forgive the urgency
But hurry up and wait
My heart has started to separate

DEAN - I'm Not Sorry

I live my life like this
Tell me how could
I miss giving you
everything you deserve

Blondie - Sunday Girl

I got the blues

Hurry up, hurry up, hurry up and wait
Hurry up, please come see what'cha do to me

Jordin Sparks - One step at a time

Hurry up and wait so close but so far away
Everything that you've always dreamed of
Close enough for you to taste but you just can't touch

Shikiura. - I’m Telling You, Bodies Are Honest

I’m telling you, bodies are honest
Even the intellectual you can come
Hey hey, though you lecture me so haughtily,
Deep down, you want to be with me, don’t you?

Snow Man - Hip bounce!!

Oh Baby テンカウント数えるから
Hurry up and wait (talatala yeah talatala)
Uh Darling ノーウェイLadyの身だしなみはMust (Allright Allright)

The Beths - Watching the Credits

Press play on the rest of the day
Hurry up and wait for your next scene
Not great

Train - Don't Grow Up So Fast

You want it all right now, let's hurry up and wait
Girl, you right on time, trust me, you're not too late
I hate to see you rain, those mascara tears
But you can drown in the water beyond your years

Louis Tomlinson - Look After You

If I don't say this now I will surely break
As I'm leavin' the one I want to take
Forget the urgency but hurry up and wait
My heart has started to separate

Hypnogaja - Crash

Download your outlook
Uplink your input
Flip the kill switch
It's the golden glitch

Mod Sun - Bones

Every conversation it turns to a battle (turns to a battle)

Hurry up and wait
It's a long way down

Ace Wilder - Don't Worry

I’m not a preacher but I’m tellin´ you
dont worry its ok
just hurry up and wait

Anna Tatangelo - Go To Her

Lower your voice a little
People may already be sleeping
You know I don't like it
When you speak to me this way

Fergie - Feel Alive

I'm so 3000 and great, they're so 2000 and hate
They want me to fall and fail
Hurry up and wait, I'm a pyscho on a beat
Norman bates, I'm on that bally, as well, as the fire great legs, break

Walk the Moon - All Night

Getting older, not getting wiser - staying up all night
Everybody wants the same things at the same damn time
Running in circles, hunting hunters - hurry up and wait in line

King Crimson - Neal and Jack and Me

Rush into the lobby life
Of hurry up and wait, hurry up and wait
Hurry up and wait
For all the odd-shaped keys

Princess Sissi (OST) - Princess Sissi Opening Theme (English Translation)

I desire to be always with you
to dream a beautiful dream in your arms
our time will come again
a beautiful gift of love was given

Billy Joe Shaver - I Been To Georgia On A Fast Train

Your brand new shiny Plymouth rag-top car

Yeah it's hurry up and wait, in this world of give and take
Seems like haste makes for waste every time

KMFDM - Waste

Ready, steady, stop
Hurry up and wait
The tick-tick-ticking of the clock

Gossip - 2012

So quick to seal our fate
Give it a second chance
We'll hurry up and wait
Victims of circumstance