minute

Related to minute: last minute
See:
  • (be) with you in a minute
  • 15 minutes of fame
  • a (unit of time) or two
  • a committee is a group of men who keep minutes and waste hours
  • a laugh a minute
  • a mile a minute
  • a New York minute
  • any day now
  • any minute
  • any minute now
  • any minute, day, time, etc. now
  • any minute/moment
  • at the last minute
  • at the last minute/moment
  • be a laugh a minute
  • every minute counts
  • famous for 15 minutes
  • famous for fifteen minutes
  • forty minutes of hell
  • give (someone) a minute
  • half a minute
  • half a minute, tick, second, etc.
  • half a second
  • half a tick
  • hold on (for) a minute
  • Hold on!
  • in (an amount of time) flat
  • in (just) a minute
  • in a New York minute
  • in a second
  • in the space of (an amount of time)
  • in the space of a minute, an hour, a morning, etc.
  • in two minutes, ten seconds, etc. flat
  • just a minute
  • Just a minute!
  • just a minute/moment/second
  • kill (an amount of time)
  • last-minute
  • laugh a minute
  • mile a minute
  • mile a minute, a
  • minute happens
  • not a minute too soon
  • not for a instant
  • not for a minute
  • not for a moment
  • not for a second
  • not for a/one minute/moment/second/instant
  • not for one instant
  • not for one minute
  • not for one moment
  • not for one second
  • not have a minute to call (one's) own
  • one minute to midnight
  • speak a mile a minute
  • talk a mile a minute
  • the last minute
  • the minute (that)
  • the minute/moment...
  • there's a sucker born every minute
  • there's one born every minute
  • this (very) minute
  • this minute
  • to the minute
  • up to the minute
  • up-to-the-minute
  • wait a minute
  • wait a minute/moment/second
  • when you get a minute
  • With you in a minute
References in classic literature
Somebody told, I reckon; for in about eight or ten minutes them two pals come tearing forrard as tight as they could jump and darted ashore and was gone.
The pleasantness of the morning had induced him to walk forward, and leave his horses to meet him by another road, a mile or two beyond Highbury and happening to have borrowed a pair of scissors the night before of Miss Bates, and to have forgotten to restore them, he had been obliged to stop at her door, and go in for a few minutes: he was therefore later than he had intended; and being on foot, was unseen by the whole party till almost close to them.
But within that minute a crosstown car had stopped directly in front of the cab.
In ten minutes more Jurgis had pulled off his coat and overshirt, and set his teeth together and gone to work.
Three minutes passed; it seemed to Levin that more than an hour had gone by.
"If you in the morning Throw minutes away, You can't pick them up In the course of a day.
Twenty minutes after Paulvitch had called Tarzan, Rokoff obtained a connection with Olga's private line.
The whooping went on, and in about a minute I come a-booming down on a cut bank with smoky ghosts of big trees on it, and the current throwed me off to the left and shot by, amongst a lot of snags that fairly roared, the currrent was tearing by them so swift.
The dim suggestion of the laboratory seemed presently to fall away from me, and I saw the sun hopping swiftly across the sky, leaping it every minute, and every minute marking a day.
How I should grudge and count up every minute of it, so as to waste not a single instant!' He said that this thought weighed so upon him and became such a terrible burden upon his brain that he could not bear it, and wished they would shoot him quickly and have done with it."
After looking at me calmly for half a minute, he began turning round again.
How about planting minutes wholesale, and making two minutes grow where one minute grew before?
You will scream yourself to death in a minute, and I wish you would!" A nice sympathetic child could neither have thought nor said such things, but it just happened that the shock of hearing them was the best possible thing for this hysterical boy whom no one had ever dared to restrain or contradict.
In a minute or two the Caterpillar took the hookah out of its mouth and yawned once or twice, and shook itself.
Phileas Fogg and his servant seated themselves in a first-class carriage at twenty minutes before nine; five minutes later the whistle screamed, and the train slowly glided out of the station.