bear with me
Hold on briefly
Bear with me is a request for patience, asking someone to wait or tolerate a brief delay while you gather thoughts, find information, or work through something: Bear with me while I pull up your account.
The phrase uses bear in its sense of enduring or putting up with something.
Often appears in professional or customer service contexts.
- patienceCalm during delays
- waitDelay until later
- hold onWait or maintain grip
- indulgeSatisfy a craving
- toleratePermit without approval
moment · pause · hang on · hang tight · forgive · understanding · just a sec · endure · listen · attention · grace · courtesy · apologize · excuse · delay · interrupt · almost there · gathering thoughts
- patience phraseswait, hold on, just a minute, one moment, one second
- Polite delaysexcuse me, one moment, just a minute, hold on, pardon me
- asking for helpplease help, help me, lend a hand, help wanted, SOS
- humilityhumbleness, humble, meekness, modesty, modest
- fillersfiller, gap filler, filler material, caulk, grout
bear with mehurry up
Command to accelerate
get on with it · enough already · spit it out · forget it · move it
bear with mewhatever
Expression of apathy
too bad · not my problem · deal with it · tough luck · dismissive
bear with meI'm out
Declaring one's exit
don't bother · take it or leave it · goodbye · suit yourself · whatever
bear, bears, bearing, bearer, bearable, unbearable, forbear, forbearance