lord-in-waiting

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Examples

• Should lightning strike and Hillary Clinton forgoes a presidential run, Democrats have a nominee in waiting.

• This is a guy who has his son-in-law clean his eyeglasses, for crying out loud.

• Her travel clique has been known to arrive at an airport, bags packed, passport-in-hand, within hours of spotting a deal.

• A running joke inside the tribe is that the group is like that club with a hundred people waiting outside to get in.

• The first day of Liberty, I was hanging around waiting for Ford to come in.

• Sol laughed out of his whiskers, with a big, loose-rolling sound, and sat on the porch without waiting to be asked.

• But with all her advantages Miss Solomonson failed with the old lord, and she abuses him to this day.

• We all rose to our feet, and he shook hands with everybody without waiting to be introduced.

• At Felipe's cry, the women waiting in the hall hurried in, wailing aloud as their first glance showed them all was over.

• After a bit of waiting, Mac decided that the smoke was floating from a certain direction, and we began to edge carefully that way.