wait for dead men's shoes
wait for dead men's shoes
To await one's inheritance (and thus anticipate another's death). Not that I'm waiting for dead men's shoes, but I'm going to get a lot of money when my grandfather dies.
See also: dead, shoe, wait
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.
- dead men's shoes
- dead broke
- dead wrong
- loss
- dead loss
- a dead loss
- quick and the dead
- quick and the dead, the
- the quick and the dead
- better