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Phrase(s): It’s ill waiting for dead men’s shoes.
Prov. You should not be eager for someone to die so that you inherit something. • Phil: Why should I bother to learn some kind of trade? I’ll be rich when Grandpa dies and leaves me all his money. Alan: It’s ill waiting for dead men’s shoes.
McGrawhill's American Idioms And Phrasal Verbs