wait at table

[wait at table] or [wait on table] or [wait table] {v. phr.}

To serve food.

* /Mrs. Lake had to teach her new maid to wait on table properly./

* /The girls earn spending money by waiting at table in the school dining rooms./

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Source: A Dictionary of American Idioms


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