"wait in the wings" meaning in English

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "waits in the wings",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "waiting in the wings",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "waited in the wings",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "waited in the wings",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "*"
      },
      "expansion": "wait in the wings (third-person singular simple present waits in the wings, present participle waiting in the wings, simple past and past participle waited in the wings)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2009 September 1, Lenka, Tawgs Salter, “Trouble Is a Friend”, in Lenka, performed by Lenka",
          "text": "He's there in the dark, he's there in my heart / He waits in the wings, he's gotta play a part / Trouble is a friend, yeah, trouble is a friend of mine, oh oh!",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To be about to become important or central."
      ],
      "id": "en-wait_in_the_wings-en-verb-zIiCafpS",
      "links": [
        [
          "about to",
          "about to"
        ],
        [
          "important",
          "important"
        ],
        [
          "central",
          "central"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(idiomatic) To be about to become important or central."
      ],
      "related": [
        {
          "word": "-in-waiting"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "idiomatic"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "audio": "En-au-wait in the wings.ogg",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/a/a6/En-au-wait_in_the_wings.ogg/En-au-wait_in_the_wings.ogg.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a6/En-au-wait_in_the_wings.ogg",
      "tags": [
        "Australia"
      ],
      "text": "Audio (AU)"
    },
    {
      "audio": "En-us-wait in the wings.oga",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/6/61/En-us-wait_in_the_wings.oga/En-us-wait_in_the_wings.oga.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/61/En-us-wait_in_the_wings.oga",
      "tags": [
        "US"
      ],
      "text": "Audio (US)"
    }
  ],
  "word": "wait in the wings"
}

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "waits in the wings",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "waiting in the wings",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "waited in the wings",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "waited in the wings",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "*"
      },
      "expansion": "wait in the wings (third-person singular simple present waits in the wings, present participle waiting in the wings, simple past and past participle waited in the wings)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "related": [
    {
      "word": "-in-waiting"
    }
  ],
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English idioms",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English terms with audio links",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English verbs"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2009 September 1, Lenka, Tawgs Salter, “Trouble Is a Friend”, in Lenka, performed by Lenka",
          "text": "He's there in the dark, he's there in my heart / He waits in the wings, he's gotta play a part / Trouble is a friend, yeah, trouble is a friend of mine, oh oh!",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To be about to become important or central."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "about to",
          "about to"
        ],
        [
          "important",
          "important"
        ],
        [
          "central",
          "central"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(idiomatic) To be about to become important or central."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "idiomatic"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "audio": "En-au-wait in the wings.ogg",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/a/a6/En-au-wait_in_the_wings.ogg/En-au-wait_in_the_wings.ogg.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a6/En-au-wait_in_the_wings.ogg",
      "tags": [
        "Australia"
      ],
      "text": "Audio (AU)"
    },
    {
      "audio": "En-us-wait in the wings.oga",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/6/61/En-us-wait_in_the_wings.oga/En-us-wait_in_the_wings.oga.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/61/En-us-wait_in_the_wings.oga",
      "tags": [
        "US"
      ],
      "text": "Audio (US)"
    }
  ],
  "word": "wait in the wings"
}