wing
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5.8
- noun
- /wɪŋ/
- Jargon
- You can go back to waiting in the wings, Tommy Tune.
- waiting in the wings
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Watch on YouTubeSo what tends to happen is that slowly they try to prepare you for going back eventually onto the wings.
- So what tends to happen is that slowly they try to prepare you for going back eventually onto the wings.
Examples
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And then, as if they were waiting in the wings, five more tribes came forward, ready to defect on similar terms.
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But I will stand in the wings for the entire show.
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As he stood in the wing of the stage, the council members filed past him, taking their seats.
Fiction book (2001) -
Just standing in the wings, I'd like it once more.
Fiction book (1991) -
The girls wait in the wings until it's their turn to sway across the square.
Fiction book (1994) -
Nora and Stokes watch from the wings with a mixture of uncertainty and disgust.
Fiction book (2002) -
But he told me to tell you that if you lose your way on stage, just look to the wings and you'll find a true magician to help you.
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During this opening act, the two future icons were fated to watch from the wings, restless understudies awaiting their turn onstage.
Academic text (2011) -
Once, when I was a kid, I was standing in the wings watching you on stage.
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The director calls her to the wings then, and the timing couldn't be better.
Synonyms
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3.5
The area behind a stage where actors get ready
1
4.2
An area of the stage not visible to the audience where actors or props wait
1
5.1
A place to the right of the stage where actors wait out of view of the audience
Idioms
Compounds
202
3.8
People who support conservative political, social, and economic ideas and little change
6
8.4
A senior Royal Air Force officer who is above a squadron leader and below a group captain
- Specialized
1
6.9
A set of long rotating blades on a helicopter that lift it and let it hover
- Specialized
1
8.9
A South American plant with wing-shaped leaves and red flower clusters
- Specialized
1
5.5
A small metal part with flat side pieces you can turn by hand to hold things together
- Specialized
1
7.8
One of the front pair of thin parts an insect uses to fly when it has four wings
- US
1
9.6
A North American tree with rough, thick bumps on its branches that look like wings
- Specialized
A small stiff group of feathers on the front edge of a bird's wing that helps control flight when landing
- Specialized
A small group of stiff feathers on a bird's thumb that helps control flight
How Visible
Surface Forms
Etymology
Wing for the side area of a stage keeps the 'side' image: just as a wing is beside a bird, the wings of a stage are the hidden sides where actors wait, so they are out of the audience's view.