Among the most quoted lines of the speech include I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character. I have a dream today!.
bide your time. âº to wait patiently for a good opportunity to do something: Heâs just biding his time until a permanent job opens up. (Definition of âbide your timeâ from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary Â© Cambridge University Press) Translations of âbide your timeâ.
Word Origin & History. bide O.E. bidan to stay, continue, live, remain, also to trust, rely (cognate of O.N. biÃ°a, O.Fris. bidia, Goth. beidan to wait), apparently from PIE *bheidh-, an extended stem of one root of O.E. biddan (see bid), the original sense of which was to command, and to trust (cf. Gk.