waiting to happen
phraseEtymology
Modeled after accident waiting to happen and disaster waiting to happen; more generic uses outside of those phrases apparently started decades later, c. 1960s.
Definitions
Bound to happen
Bound to happen; almost certain to occur in the future.
- an accident waiting to happen, a divorce waiting to happen
The neighborhood
Vish — recursive loop
No curated loop yet for waiting to happen. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.
sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA