Usually means: Anticipating another, inevitable negative event.
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  1. wait for the other shoe to drop: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  2. wait for the other shoe to drop: Wiktionary
  3. wait for the other shoe to drop: Dictionary.com
  4. wait for the other shoe to drop: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. wait for the other shoe to drop: Idioms

Definitions from Wiktionary (wait for the other shoe to drop)

verb:  (idiomatic) To defer action or decision until another matter is finished or resolved.
verb:  (idiomatic) To await a seemingly inevitable event, especially one that is not desirable.

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