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Just a second 

An indeterminate amount of time between now and never where time is both not and of the essence.
Hana: Can I have your help with shoveling my car out of the snow, James?
James: Just a second and I will be right there I'm a little busy at the moment.
Hana: On second thought I'll just do it myself, thanks anyway.

Just a second 

A length of time, generally used by someone who is going to take much longer than one second.
Come on mom, you said just a second three hours ago.

Just A Second 

Something to hold off doing something for a couple of hours.
Just a second. I'll tell you how you can use this in a sentence later.
Just A Second by NoodleNukes January 30, 2025

you just wasted a few seconds reading this 

you just wasted a few seconds reading this
you just wasted a few seconds reading this

🤡🫵🏻

How to say "you're an idiot/clown" using only emojis.
Person 1: Insert completely incorrect and/or idiotic statement here
Person 2: 🤡🫵🏻
Word of the Day on June 1, 2026
Fogey/fogy /fougi/ sl. (early 18C+, orig. Scot) old-fashioned, stuck-in-the mud.
Person with old fashioned ideas which he is unwilling to change: Come to the disco and stop being such an old fogey!
You think me an old fogeyand an old tory, his thoughtful voice said. I saw three generations since O’Connel’s time. I remember the famine. Do you know that the orange lodges agitated for repeal of the union twenty years before O’Connel did or before the prelates of your communion denounced him as a demagogue? You fenians forget some things. (James Joyce, Ulysses. Penguin Books,1992. p. 38)
fogey by Petyush September 14, 2005
Word of the Day on May 31, 2026