wait for Godot

Refers to the surreal comic play Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett, in which two tramps engage in a variety of discussions and encounters while awaiting "Godot", who never arrives.

• "But waiting for the connection between gender and parenting to be broken is waiting for Godot; pretending that children have no impact on a woman's career is turning the exception into the rule."
• "We are waiting not for a Godot, but for another ­– doubtless very different – St. Benedict."