(idiomatic) Stop; wait; hold on. Used to interrupt speech or proceedings so that one can make a comment or query.
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Miss Girzie at these words started up, and said, "Sir, sir, just a minute.""I can hear no more," cried I; "it is plain you intend to make a bargain with my friend...
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1827, John Galt, The last of the lairds: or, The life and opinions of Malachi Mailings ...http://books.google.com/books?id=7xM1AAAAMAAJ&pg=PA221&dq=%22just+a+minute%22, page 221: