bide one's time
To wait, especially for a suitable opportunity.
Ravenswood, who had assumed the disguise of a sewer upon the occasion, answered, in a stern voice, “I bide my time”; and at the same moment a bull’s head, the ancient symbol of dea
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To bear; to endure; to tolerate.
And doubting naught right courteous all, in your accustomed wont: And gentle ears, our author he is prest to bide the brunt
To face with resistance; to encounter; to withstand.
Tech[elles]. I heare them come, ſhall wee encounter them? / Tam[burlaine]. Keep all your ſtandings, and not ſtir a foot, / Myſelfe will bide the danger of the brunt.
To dwell or reside in a location; to abide.
All knees to thee shall bow of them that bide / In heaven or earth, or under earth, in hell.
John Dodds, the herd who bode in the place, was standing at the door, and he looked to see who was on the road so late.
To wait; to be in expectation; to stay; to remain.
And thither wending there that night they bode.
"Bide here," he says, "and birl the wine till I return. This is a ploy of my own on which no man follows me."
To wait for; to await.
name
A surname.