"hurry up and wait" meaning in English

{
  "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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    {
      "args": {
        "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",
  "senses": [
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        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English coordinated pairs",
          "parents": [
            "Coordinated pairs",
            "Terms by etymology"
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        },
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            "Entry maintenance"
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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": [
        [
          "humorous",
          "humorous"
        ]
      ],
      "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"
}

{
  "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"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "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",
  "senses": [
    {
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        "English coordinated pairs",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English entries with language name categories using raw markup",
        "English humorous terms",
        "English idioms",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys",
        "English verbs"
      ],
      "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"
        ]
      ],
      "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"
}