望眼欲穿

wàngyǎnyùchuān
to anxiously await

CEDICT

eagerly looking forward to meeting a dear one; expect to see someone who never comes

Wiktionary

形容企盼的深切。明．西湖居士《明月環．第一六齣．詰環》：「小姐望眼欲穿，老身去回覆小姐去也。」也作「望眼將穿」。

重編國語辭典

形容企盼的深切

維基詞典

Entry Composition

=1 望 wàng
  1. full moon
  2. to hope
  3. to expect
  4. to visit
  5. to gaze (into the distance)
  6. to look towards
  7. towards
=1 望 wàng
  1. 15th day of month (lunar calendar)
  2. old variant of 望 wàng
2 眼 yǎn
  1. (often used with 一 yī) a look; a glance
  2. small hole
  3. (bound form) salient point
  4. classifier for wells, cave-dwellings etc

classifiers: 隻, 雙
=3 欲 yù
  1. desire
  2. appetite
  3. passion
  4. lust
  5. greed
=3 欲 yù
  1. to wish for
  2. to desire
  3. variant of 慾 yù
4 穿 chuān
  1. to wear
  2. to put on
  3. to dress
  4. to bore through
  5. to pierce
  6. to perforate
  7. to penetrate
  8. to pass through
  9. to thread

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翹首以待 qiáoshǒuyǐdài
  1. to hold one's breath (in anticipation) (idiom)
  2. to anxiously await