la cola in inglese:

I'm in a queue

Rob is late for the programme because there was such a long queue for coffee!

A queue is a line of people waiting for something to happen. We see queues in amusement parks, the supermarket and at the cinema when a new movie is released.

To form in a line while waiting (often followed by up). To arrange (data, jobs, messages, etc) into a queue.

Please hold the line so as not to lose your place in the queue.

At the train station, once I had figured out where the queue for tickets actually was, I began the long wait.

I didn't arrive in Harbin until very late, and the queue for taxis was already extremely long.

Japanese and British people usually wait at a bus stop in a queue.

Not long after I joined the queue, a man approached and asked if I wanted a taxi.

This implies a fun and relaxed working atmosphere where team achievement is highly valued, communication is extremely important and traditional 3-hour meetings have been replaced by informal chats in the queue for coffee.

People queued to buy Diablo 3.

I talk to everyone – even people next to me in the queue.

Look the queue is so long, I will not stand here.

This boy jumped a queue.

One of the reasons I prefer travelling by train is that there are often long queues at the airport.

Better be the head of a dog than the tail of a lion.

As a tadpole grows, the tail disappears and legs begin to form.

I can't make head nor tail of it.

If you cut the tail off of a lizard, it will grow back.

The tail of a fox is longer than that of a rabbit.

the horse has tail

It was naughty of Mary to pull the kitten's tail.

Despite the fact that Mary keeps saying I was the only man she'd like to marry, when I proposed to her, she said "NO". I cannot make head or tail of it.

Some learned writers have compared a Scorpion to an Epigram, because as the sting of the Scorpion lies in the tail, so the force and virtue of an epigram is in the conclusion.

America is a large, friendly dog in a very small room. Every time it wags its tail, it knocks over a chair.

Just as if it were my tail, wherever I go, it goes too.

sit on somebody's tail

The farmer wants to start milking again, but now the cow is hitting him with her tail.

The animal sprays liquid from a gland under its tail.

There's the whole long tail problem they have.