wait up

[wait up] {v. phr.}

To not go to bed until a person one is worried about comes home (said by parents and marriage partners).

* /My mother always waited up for me when I went out as a young student./

* /She always waits up for her husband when he's out late./

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Source: A Dictionary of American Idioms


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