| 单词 | just a minute |
| 释义 | > as lemmasjust a minute (also second, moment, etc.) P4. just a minute (also second, moment, etc.): used to ask someone to stop, wait, or pay attention for a short amount of time; also used to express puzzlement, realization, outrage, etc. ΚΠ 1824 E. H. McLeod Principle! III. 253 Stop! just a moment—stop! 1898 Stenographer Nov. 265/1 ‘Just a minute, please!’ interrupted Atalanta. Atalanta was plainly in trouble. Yet the young man had only jogged along in his dictation at a rate of about eighty words a minute. 1930 Oxf. Ann. Girls 22/2 Just a tick! I'm coming! 1934 J. M. Cain Postman always rings Twice x. 115 Just a few minutes, sarge. 1972 I. Levin Stepford Wives ii. 132 Now just a second; just hear me out please. 1977 M. Frayn Donkeys' Years ii, in Plays: One (1985) 119 Just a moment—if old Birkett's shoved off, we could break into the Buttery and steal that beer. 1982 P. Redmond Brookside (Mersey TV shooting script) (O.E.D. Archive) Episode 1. 58 Aye Aye. Just a minute pal. Where d'you think you're going? 1998 R. Stone Damascus Gate ii. lii. 379 ‘Just a mo, Dmitri,’ she said. 2005 R. Anderson Little Fugue (2006) 264 Now, just a minute, no one's saying that you're not a great poet in your own right. < as lemmas |
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