wait a minute

Meaning

1. Oxford95% of films

   used when you have just noticed or remembered sth, or had a sudden idea

2. Oxford5% of films

   to wait for a short time

In the movies · 268

• Becky, could you wait a moment?Good Luck to You, Leo Grande2022
• Wait a minute. Why do you want that beer so bad?Smokey and the Bandit1977
• Now wait a minute, fellas. Let's talk about this!Django Unchained2012
• Wait a minute wait a minuteJurassic World Dominion2022
• Wait a minute, wait a minute, wait a minute!The Lego Movie 2: The Second Part2019
• Wait a minute! Wait a minute!Inside Out2015
• Wait a minuteThe World's End2013
• Wait a minute, wait a minute.Adaptation.2002

Learn it in full scenes

• Inside Out2015
  • Broccoli on the Pizza
  • Sadness Nearly Touches a Core Memory
  • Riley Introduces Herself and Cries

From the same entry

• an accident disaster waiting to happen
• I, they, can't wait hardly wait
• keep waiting
• wait and see
• wait at table
• wait for it
• wait on hand and foot
• wait tables
• wait till
• what are we waiting for
• what are you waiting for
• you wait

More idioms

• in front of
• too late
• after all
• all the way
• at home
• leave alone
• make up your mind
• be to do with
• first thing
• on your own
• but then
• in fact