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"Waiting for Godot" is an absurdist play by Samuel Beckett that explores the themes of existentialism, human condition, and the futility of human existence. The expression has come to represent a sense of waiting indefinitely for something that may never come or for an event that may never happen.

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"Waiting for Godot" (go-DOE) comes from a play of the same name by Samuel Beckett in which two characters wait for a third named Godot, who never appears. It means to wait for something that will never happen, with connotations of futility and despair.

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