to wait for something to happen, usually noticing every day or moment that passes until it happens
All of which makes this a far more absorbing and instructive experience than your average festive countdown show.
His countdown clock is ticking to the end of the season.
I think this is the final countdown here.
It was most definitely the final countdown.
Just don't expect to see me out there before the final countdown.
So now we begin the final countdown.
So the countdown begins in earnest.
The children begin a countdown, backwards from ten.
The countdown begins in December.
The countdown to 2011 begins in Toulouse.
The former Countdown maths whizz also had stitches in her forehead and eyelid.
These changes will provide the base before the intensity switches to the athletes for the final 18-month countdown.
They've got a countdown clock on their website showing a plane heading for the twin towers.
We are counting down the days until the end of the exams.
Yet in what is now an election countdown, ending such protections will be fiendishly difficult.
counts down
counting down
counted down
There is no origin for this phrasal verb
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