| Kenneth G. Wilson (1923–). The Columbia Guide to Standard American English. 1993. |
| bide (v.) |
| is archaic, obsolete, or dialectal in the senses “stay, dwell, and wait,” except in the idiom to bide one’s time, which is Standard and means “to be patient until the right moment to act,” and in the cloying cliché that still turns up as the name of summer cottages, Bide-a-Wee. | 1 |
| The Columbia Guide to Standard American English. Copyright © 1993 Columbia University Press. |
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