play a waiting game
Example Sentences
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But KKR has been forced to play a waiting game as Telecom Italia overhauled its management, ousting its fourth chief executive in six years after a string of profit warnings.
From Reuters • Feb. 22, 2022
This kind of patience is only available when your owner has no need to cash in and, in a fast-moving sport where fans demand instant results, knows how to play a waiting game.
From The Guardian • Dec. 15, 2017
The British government, although quietly outraged by Ecuador’s actions in offering shelter to Assange, have decided not to make a diplomatic row out of the affair, content to play a waiting game instead.
From Newsweek • Feb. 8, 2013
The Mariners might be willing to play a waiting game, offer him a four-or-five-year deal, but even that would be gamble.
From Seattle Times • Nov. 11, 2012
Nevertheless, he believed that the time would come when he would be able to co-operate with a French invasion; he tried to play a waiting game, and evaded the British attempts at pacification.
From The Political History of England - Vol. X. The History of England from the Accession of George III to the close of Pitt's first Administration by Poole, Reginald Lane
