To hold; to wait for someone at the other end of a telephone connection.

(idiomatic) Not all there; slightly crazy. / (idiomatic) Synonym of lost in thought; distracted or daydreaming. / (idiomatic) fast asleep

(literally) Fitting the melody of. / (idiomatic) Roughly; about; to the approximate sum or extent of.

Spontaneous; impromptu.

(idiomatic, euphemistic) To die. / (idiomatic) To quit, or fail.

(idiomatic) Impulse; short notice; a lack of planning.

That is the way things happen; that's life.

That is the way things happen / Certain things cannot be changed, helped or improved; struggle and objection are pointless.

That is the way things happen.

(idiomatic, intransitive) To marry, wed, get married. / Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see tie, the, knot.