0 an uncertain situation that you cannot control and in which there is no progress or improvement: --
Until we have official permission to go ahead with the plans we're in limbo.
1 a dance from the West Indies in which the dancer bends backwards to go under a low bar that is made lower each time he or she goes under it --
2 an uncertain situation that you cannot control and in which there is no progress or improvement: --
bureaucratic/political/legal limbo
Until we've got official permission to go ahead with the plans we will remain in limbo.
Rhinelanders, always much impressed by legality, existed in a state of limbo throughout the intervening period.
The achievement of its electoral goals without new links to government left the association in a sort of functional and political limbo.
In educational terms they have remained in a kind of limbo.
No matter how ethereal they may seem, they do not exist in a timeless limbo but possess determinate antecedents in time and space.
Researchers pointed out the connections between compulsion, the last-resort mentality and the problem of children left in an emotional limbo.
Their boundaries might overlap; or leave some areas in a curious limbo unattached to any part of the institutional structure.
The reason is that such sentences do not somehow occur alone, in limbo; they occur as part of a more general theory.
In fact, villagers make a clear distinction in everyday language between inhabited space (the limbo and its fields) and the surrounding wilderness (musenge).
