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Phrase(s): the minute something happens
the point in time at which an event happens. • I’ll be inside the minute it rains. • Call me the minute you get to town.
McGrawhill's American Idioms And Phrasal Verbs
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noun one sixtieth of an hour VERB + MINUTE last, take MINUTE + VERB pass, tick by The minutes ticked by and still nothing happened. MINUTE + NOUN hand the minute hand on the clock PREP. after … ~s After twenty minutes I started to get worried. | for … ~s We waited for ten minutes and then left. | in … ~s The film starts in ten minutes. | ~s past four minutes past two | ~s to ten minutes to threeMEASURE moment ADJ. last Don't leave everything till the last minute. VERB + MINUTE hang on, hold on, wait Could you wait a minute, please? | have, spare Do you have a minute, Miss Brown? Can you spare a minute? | take This will only take a minute. PREP. in a ~ I'll be with you in a minute. | within ~s The ship sank within minutes. PHRASES just a minute, the minute sth happens Tell him I want to see him the minute he arrives. | not for a minute I never thought for a minute he'd refuse. | this minute Come here this minute! minutes: written record of what is said at a meeting VERB + MINUTE keep, take Who's going to take the minutes? | circulate | read | agree, approve, sign | write up I wrote up the minutes of the meeting and circulated them by email. PHRASES the minutes of a meetingMEETING
Oxford Collocations Dictionary