watched pot never boils
If you watch or wait for something to get done or to happen, it seems to take forever. — A proverb.
Jane was nine months pregnant and Tom hovered over her anxiously. She said, "You might as well go away and play some golf. A watched pot never boils, you know!"
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Source: A Dictionary of American Idioms
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