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’m not—hold on! Wait a minute! You’re the one always demanding I put my monocle back on to hide my eyehole, so it’s rich you’re the one lecturing me on this!”

From Literature

In that moment of blinking, the whole system kind of said, Wait a minute, maybe this guy doesn’t have all of this power.

From Slate

Earl Ofari Hutchinson, an author and president of the Los Angeles Urban Policy Roundtable, moved here from Chicago as a teenager, and it took him “a long time to realize, wait a minute, there are actually mountains there.”

From Los Angeles Times

“Now wait a minute,” he huffed, trying to catch his breath.

From Literature

I laughed, and he asked me to wait a minute so he could walk me home.

From Literature