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

“Wait a minute,” Miss Kemp said.

From Literature

It’s like, ‘wait a minute, how and why?!!’

From Los Angeles Times

“I’m saying, ‘Wait a minute, if I move him, these Fed guys, certainly the one we have now, they don’t talk much.’

From MarketWatch

“As we compared our stories, we said—‘wait a minute, you were told that you could go to NYU and that he would pay for it, too?’

From The Wall Street Journal

Wait a minute, Harrisburg and Philadelphia?

From Literature