Be very eager, anxious, or impatient, as in We can’t wait for the baseball season to begin or I can’t wait to see Dad—it’s been a year. While the literal sense of being unable to wait (for lack of time) is much older, this figurative usage dates only from about 1930. The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary.
When people say “can’t wait,” my brain sometimes can’t wait to have these thoughts:
What do you mean you can’t wait? Of course, you can wait. And you will wait, because what you can’t wait for is NOT happening immediately.
I’ve waited a long time to express those thoughts about “can’t wait.” I can’t wait to tell you how pleased I am that the wait is over.
I can’t wait to show you my four photos from yesterday.
I can’t wait to tell you that
I work in Boston,
I wrote about the group exercise What I Know/What I Don’t Knowhere,
the second-to-last entry on my “What I Know” list, above, is “That I have a lot to learn,” and
My son Aaron to finally hear from the University of Edinburgh that they have kept their agreement with him and unconditionally admitted him to their school, since he received a good enough (actually perfect) score on his Math Advanced Placement Exam.
My open heart surgery at the Mayo Clinic.
My downstairs neighbor and we to decide on a mutually advantageous way for her to buy our upstairs unit.