wait a minute

Idioms  

1. Stop, I want to say something, as in Wait a minute—he wasn't there yesterday .

2. What a surprise, as in Wait a minute! It was you who called the police? For a similar phrase, see hold everything .

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Example Sentences

“I said, wait a minute, why am I even thinking about that? Why do I care what other people perceive of the CEO of Robinhood?” he said.

From The Wall Street Journal

Wait a minute, you may be thinking, aren’t tariffs taxes?

From The Wall Street Journal

“Wait, wait, wait, wait a minute. Wait a minute,” Mr. Biden told reporters as he headed for an economic event at a North Carolina semiconductor plant.

From New York Times

Let me challenge this for a second, because a detective or law enforcement agency working on a case is going to say, “Well, wait a minute. This information that is possessed by Facebook or Google is helpful to me in solving crime.”

From Slate

You have to go and meet little groups, you have to see — cause I did big rallies, 3-4-5K people would come . . . and they said, "Wait a minute, Trump can never make it, because that's not the way you deal with New Hampshire, you have to go to people's living rooms, have dinner, have tea, have a good time."

From Salon