wait/just a minute

idiom

informal

—used to tell someone to wait or to stop for a brief time

"Aren't you finished yet?" "Just a minute. I'm almost done."

Wait a minute—I didn't hear you. Could you repeat what you said?

Wait just a minute, young man. Where do you think you're going?

—used to express surprise or disbelief

Hey, wait a minute! That's not what you said yesterday!

Examples of wait/just a minute in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web Senator, in just a minute here, quickly, Democrats say the former president is trying to take the reins of the entire democratic system here with these comments. —

CBS News, 28 July 2024 And just stop everything else around you for just a minute. —

Eleanor Pringle, Fortune, 20 June 2024 Bots will be able to convincingly impersonate humans online and over the phone by cloning a person’s voice with just a minute of audio. —

Paul Scharre, Foreign Affairs, 16 Apr. 2019 In the clip, which is just a minute long, her wife Kirsten French is seen laying in a hospice care bed as a man holds up a phone for her to FaceTime. —

Angel Saunders, Peoplemag, 6 June 2024 See all Example Sentences for wait/just a minute

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