wait on someone hand and foot
To attend to (someone's) every need, to the point of excess.
Did you see how she waits on him hand and foot? It's not healthy.
wait
UK /weɪt/ US /weɪt/
verb 5noun 5intj 1name 1
Definitions
verb
1
To delay movement or action until some event or time; to remain neglected or in readiness.
Wait here until your car arrives.
I’m still waiting for you to pay me back the money I lent you..
2
To wait tables; to serve customers in a restaurant or other eating establishment.
She used to wait in this joint.
3
To delay movement or action until the arrival or occurrence of; to await. (Now generally superseded by “wait for”.)
to wait one’s turn
Awed with these words, in camps they still abide, / And wait with longing looks their promised guide.
4
To attend on; to accompany; especially, to attend with ceremony or respect.
He chose a thousand horse, the flower of all / His warlike troops, to wait the funeral.
Remorse and heaviness of heart shall wait thee, / And everlasting anguish be thy portion.
5
To attend as a consequence; to follow upon; to accompany.
noun
1
A delay.
I had a very long wait at the airport security check.
2
An ambush.
They lay in wait for the patrol.
an enemy in wait
3
Ellipsis of wait state.
4
One who watches; a watchman.
5
Hautboys, or oboes, played by town musicians.
[…]as he returned home to his owne house, the waits should sound the hautboies all the way
intj
1
Tells the other speaker to stop talking, typing etc. for a moment, often to allow clarification.
- And so I went upstairs— - Wait. Your house has two floors?
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