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what are you waiting for

what are you waiting for phrase: what is the delay? Why are you not acting or proceeding?

Phrase

what are you waiting for?

  1. (rhetoric) What is the delay? Why are you not acting or proceeding?

Questions about what are you waiting for

What does what are you waiting for mean?
What are you waiting for means what is the delay? Why are you not acting or proceeding?
What part of speech is what are you waiting for?
What are you waiting for is a phrase.

Words near what are you waiting for in the dictionary

  1. what are the odds
  2. what are you doing
  3. what are you like
  4. what are you looking at
  5. what are you smoking
  6. what are you waiting for
  7. what are your pronouns
  8. what can I do you for
  9. what can I say
  10. what can I tell you
  11. what can one do

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