``wait and see''

Sir Joh Bjelke-Petersen

``Just you wait and see.''

http://www.theage.com.au/news/National/The-sayings-of-Premier-Joh/2005/04/20/1113854243533.html

Making the case that this is hendiadys, a favorite pastime of mine, the question
comes up what the future tense might be

They will wait and see
They will wait and will see

The past tense seems to make sense, but a little awkwardly, as if something were amiss,

They waited and saw

Hendiadys ought to show up as the inability to construct tenses, one of the verbs being
actually non-finite.

I don't know if ``wait to see'' is the correct original or not.

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