just a minute/moment/second
A2 used to ask someone to wait for a short period of time:
Just a second - I've nearly finished.
mainly UK used to interrupt someone in order to ask them to explain something, to calm them, or to express disagreement:
Just a minute - can you tell me how to do that again?
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Linguistics: expressions telling people to stop doing something
- age
- break
- break it up! idiom
- butt out
- cool it idiom
- cut
- give it a rest idiom
- hold
- hold everything! idiom
- hold it! idiom
- hold on
- hold your horses idiom
- just
- leave
- pack sth in
- put
- rest
- wait
- wait for it idiom
- whoa
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Interrupting & preventing from speaking