Jim Broadbent

As a young actor, I was advised to bide my time. Back then, there weren't good roles for someone like me. There were handsome leading men and character actors for smaller supporting roles. But I was told to hang in there, and it was good advice. We're all character actors now. Even a handsome man is a character actor at my age.

American Actor

Matt Doherty

I have to bide my time, train well and still play well at club level and whenever my time comes to be more of a regular... but I'm just getting on with it. If I play, I play; if I don't, I don't, but then I will work harder to try get into the team.

James Maddison

I started lower down the leagues with Coventry, so I'd had that taste of first-team action at a young age. I'd already played 40 or 50 games before moving on, and when I got to Norwich, I had to bide my time at the start.

English Athlete

Cherie Blair

I've learned when to speak out. You do have to learn when to bide your time and when to speak out, and I don't always get it right.

British Lawyer

Conor Coady

You have to be patient and bide your time and hopefully your chance will come.

James Whitcomb Riley

The anger of a person who is strong, can always bide its time.

American Poet

Mostly used in the United Kingdom and is considered archaic.

Regional Use

Suggestions of choosing to stay somewhere contentedly or comfortably.

Implies Comfort

Often implies a temporary stay, not a permanent one.

Temporal Stay

Suggests an intentional, strategic waiting for the right time.

Patient Strategy

Emphasizes not taking immediate action, but waiting instead.

No Immediate Action

Can imply having a plan or intention while waiting.

Hidden Intention

Conveys tolerating something emotionally difficult or challenging.

Emotional Endurance

The usage has a poetic or literary feel to it.

Literary Flair

Not commonly used; may confuse some English speakers.

Limited Usage

 okay we're gonna sleep he's not going to sleep he is actually this is this is Hassan as hunting technique it's the hunting technique of most leopards walk to us see something and they lie down and they just wait and they bide their time and they rely upon their camouflage

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