"hurry up and wait" meaning in English

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  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "hurries up and waits",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "hurrying up and waiting",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "hurried up and waited",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "hurried up and waited",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
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    {
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        "1": "hurry<> up and wait<>",
        "head": "hurry up and wait"
      },
      "expansion": "hurry up and wait (third-person singular simple present hurries up and waits, present participle hurrying up and waiting, simple past and past participle hurried up and waited)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
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            "Terms by etymology"
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          "source": "w"
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        },
        {
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          "parents": [],
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        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To hurry to complete a task or arrive at a destination by a specified time, only for nothing to happen, due to other requirements that have yet to be satisfied."
      ],
      "id": "en-hurry_up_and_wait-en-verb-ItIaFed4",
      "links": [
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          "humorous",
          "humorous"
        ],
        [
          "hurry",
          "hurry"
        ],
        [
          "destination",
          "destination"
        ],
        [
          "requirements",
          "requirements"
        ],
        [
          "satisfied",
          "satisfied"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(idiomatic, humorous) To hurry to complete a task or arrive at a destination by a specified time, only for nothing to happen, due to other requirements that have yet to be satisfied."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "humorous",
        "idiomatic"
      ],
      "wikipedia": [
        "hurry up and wait"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "hurry up and wait"
}

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  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "hurries up and waits",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "hurrying up and waiting",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "hurried up and waited",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "hurried up and waited",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
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        "1": "hurry<> up and wait<>",
        "head": "hurry up and wait"
      },
      "expansion": "hurry up and wait (third-person singular simple present hurries up and waits, present participle hurrying up and waiting, simple past and past participle hurried up and waited)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
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    {
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        "English coordinated pairs",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English humorous terms",
        "English idioms",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English verbs",
        "Pages with 1 entry",
        "Pages with entries"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To hurry to complete a task or arrive at a destination by a specified time, only for nothing to happen, due to other requirements that have yet to be satisfied."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "humorous",
          "humorous"
        ],
        [
          "hurry",
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        ],
        [
          "destination",
          "destination"
        ],
        [
          "requirements",
          "requirements"
        ],
        [
          "satisfied",
          "satisfied"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(idiomatic, humorous) To hurry to complete a task or arrive at a destination by a specified time, only for nothing to happen, due to other requirements that have yet to be satisfied."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "humorous",
        "idiomatic"
      ],
      "wikipedia": [
        "hurry up and wait"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "hurry up and wait"
}