idiom(alsojust a minute/second)waitashortperiodoftime:Just aminute– I'malmostdone.(Definition ofjust a momentfrom theCambridge Academic Content Dictionary? Cambridge University Press)
Examplesofjust a moment
just a momentWhen it first appears, f resolves an e that has become dissonant;justamomentlater, e resolves the f instead, as the music moves to the cadential chord.From theCambridge English CorpusForjustamoment, everybody felt wanted.From theCambridge English CorpusThe vote is due to take place at the end of the debates, in other words injustamoment.FromEuroparl Parallel Corpus - EnglishThat can be returned to injustamoment.From theHansard archiveExample from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0I shall explain why injustamoment.From theHansard archiveExample from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0I will come to that point injustamoment.From theHansard archiveExample from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0I will come to his earlier intervention injustamoment.From theHansard archiveExample from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0I shall turn to that injustamoment.From theHansard archiveExample from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0I referred to thatjustamomentago.From theHansard archiveExample from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0I will return to that point, too, injustamoment.From theHansard archiveExample from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0I shall have a word or two to say about those long-term pay agreements injustamoment.From theHansard archiveExample from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0I wish to intervene for onlyjustamomentor two.From theHansard archiveExample from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0I want to spendjustamomentor two on the arguments which have been advanced against this concept.From theHansard archiveExample from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0I had mentioned thisjustamomentbefore he came in.From theHansard archiveExample from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0I should like to dwell on this point forjustamoment.From theHansard archiveExample from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors.#https://dictionary.cambridge.org//dictionary/english/just-a-moment##
