VOCABULARY - IDIOMS

Wax and wane

Meaning:

to increase and decrease.

Examples:

  • As with other autoimmune diseases, symptoms of Sjogren's tend to wax and wane.
  • Stocks of elvers wax and wane even if there is a downward overall decline.
  • This luminary also regulates the hormonal tides that wax and wane within the female body.
  • Political alliances wax and wane and Turkish governments come, promise, and go.
  • To wax and wane.
  • This pain is known as angina pectoris. Angina tends to wax and wane, generally worsening with exercise.
  • Our months are based on the 29-and-a-half days it takes the moon to wax and wane in the night sky.
  • Equally important is the fact that in a particular person with asthma, the susceptibility to bronchial narrowing may vary over time, just as the intensity of their asthma may wax and wane.