I haven't heard that song "in a minute".

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• anonlvone

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  7 years ago

  I always hear "in a hot minute". It can mean days, weeks, even months. No idea where it came from.
• GoVikings

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  7 years ago

  lol shadow its slang for "i haven't done something in a long time" with you being in atlanta, i'm sure you hear it a lot. lots of black folk in atlanta
• jackslash

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  7 years ago

  I have never heard the expression. GoVikings, is this one of those slang terms where something means the opposite of what it literally says? So "a minute" means "a long time"?
• joc13

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  7 years ago

  Yeah, like saying using "in a minute" to mean a long time is the cleverest thing I've ever heard anyone say. ;-)
• MrDeuce

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  7 years ago

  I've heard "in a minute" meaning "in a long time" for several years. As an amateur linguist, I probably pay closer attention to developments in slang than most. Like much of modern American slang, this usage comes from Black American Vernacular English, a common feature of which is to say the opposite of what you really mean.
• shadowcat

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  7 years ago

  GV - I'm even hearing it from my 41 yo white daughter. :)
• rane1234

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  7 years ago

  Golly jee willikers idk
• magicrat

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  7 years ago

  Yeah and it seems the ones who say it, use the term repeatedly.
• GoVikings

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  7 years ago

  jack- yes, that's exactly it shadow- lol yeah, its one of those things that people pick up after hearing it over and over and over
• Subraman

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  7 years ago

  "In a minute" has been popular among the youngsters for a while. I expect to hear it in a context like: 20-year-old #1: "I haven't been to Club Brain Damage in a minute. But that club is soooo bomb!" 20-year-old #2: "Ewwww, that place is ratchet!"
• DoctorPhil

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  7 years ago

  "...Club Brain Damage..." i'd go to that club in a new york minute. plenty of business there fo' sure
• rh48hr

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  7 years ago

  That phrase has been around for a minute. :-)