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

Common Names:

NameGenderPronouncedUsage
Adwoa-Western African, Akan
Feige-Yiddish
NaamahNAY-ə-mə (English), nah-ah-MAH (Jewish)Biblical, Hebrew
Elissa (2)-English
Roser-Catalan
Azhar-Arabic, Urdu