hot minute | Idiomator

Meaning: (informal,idiomatic)Alongperiod of time.2013, Caroline McGill,A Dollar Outta Fifteen Cent,→ISBN, page209:She decided to pop up on her big brother because it had been ahot minutesince she'd seen him.; (informal,idiomatic)An extremelyshortperiod of time; amoment.Synonym:red-hot minute2000, Eric Jerome Dickey,Cheaters,→ISBN:It didn't take but ahot minuteto find out what squadron Craig was with.2012, Michelle Hodkin,The Unbecoming of Mara Dyer,→ISBN:She didn't trust me for ahot minute, but she trusted her perfect eldest child.2014, Ray Mack,Underestimated: a searcher's story,→ISBN, page163:Very cool could easily turn into very rude in ahot minute.2016, Shéa MacLeod,The Corpse in the Cabana:Too bad he considered me a suspect, because I'd be all over thatin a hot minute. Okay, probably not. But I'd flirt a lot.2017, Julie Ann Walker,Hot Pursuit,→ISBN:Not for ahot minutedid she think it changed her inability to have lasting love.; (informal,idiomatic)Anunspecifiedperiod of time; awhile.2010, Terry McMillan,Getting to Happy,→ISBN, page138:Whatever happened to that guy Michael you dated for ahot minuteway back in the stone age?2011, Victor LaValle,Big Machine,→ISBN:We might be in Montana—but, no, that's wrong. We spent time in Montana a month ago. After a few days we have to move. We settled in Oregon for ahot minute, figured it was a good place for disappearing, but one morning we woke to find footprints in the gravel around our rented cabin.2012, Cholly Atkins, Jacqui Malone,Class Act: The Jazz Life of Choreographer Cholly Atkins,→ISBN, page89:Still, it was always nice to run into each other in the supermarkets or restaurants and talk for ahot minute.2013, Terry McMillan,Who Asked You?,→ISBN, page71:At least Dexter can spell and sounds like he went to a junior college for ahot minute.

Examples:

EN: Just a hot minute.
ES: Un momento.
EN: They're playing poker, there's a red hot minute.
ES: Estoy aquí con unos amigos.
EN: You'll be out on the street in a hot minute.
ES: Estás a punto de salir.
EN: I need to borrow Fred Astaire here for one hot minute.
ES: Necesito tomar prestado a Fred Astaire por un minuto.
EN: Yes, you'll probably have a whole chain of cleaners in a hot minute anyway, you know?
ES: Sí, probablemente tendrás toda una cadena de lavanderías en un minuto, ¿sabes?
EN: No, we couldn't possibly do that. Danny has all these connections, and they would spot Ed in a hot minute.
ES: Danny tiene todas estas conexiones, y ellos Ed detectar en un minuto caliente.
EN: And she couldn't go to a hospital, because she knew that an orderly would text TMZ in, like, a hot minute, and also... she was really embarrassed.
ES: No podía ir a un hospital, porque sabía que una auxiliar mandaría un mensaje a TMZ en un minuto, y también... estaba muy avergonzada.
EN: Okay,yes,so i'm possessing this maid for a hot minute.
ES: De acuerdo, sí, estoy poseyendo a esta doncella durante un minuto...
EN: And we were in the juice, as you would say, for a hot minute there.
ES: Y estuvimos en el horno, como dirías, por un minuto allá.
EN: Hey, Hardbeck, do you mind if I chat up your life partner for a hot minute?
ES: Oye, Hardbeck , ¿te importa si charlo con tu pareja por un minuto?
EN: I have to shoot this in slowly, so it`ll take a hot minute.
ES: Tengo que arrojarlo lentamente, por lo que tomará un minuto caliente.
EN: I was married to a Korean guy for a hot minute.
ES: Estuve casada con un tipo coreano hace un tiempo.
EN: Yeah, just for, like, a hot minute.
ES: Sí, solo por, como, un minuto caliente.
EN: She's gonna need a hot minute to come down.
ES: Va a necesitar un buen rato para recuperarse.
EN: At least it got you to shut your yap for a hot minute.
ES: Al menos ha conseguido que cierres tu bocaza durante un minuto.

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