Off-topic, but what is up with the increased use of the phrase "in a minute", presumably to mean "in a long time", lately?
I've only started encountering it in the past year.
Did it get popularized by some celebrity, tv show, influencers, etc?
Off-topic, but what is up with the increased use of the phrase "in a minute", presumably to mean "in a long time", lately?
I've only started encountering it in the past year.
Did it get popularized by some celebrity, tv show, influencers, etc?
https://trends.google.com/explore?q=I%27ve%20seen%20in%20a%2...
But there is this podcast discussing it in 2021, and it comes from black community slang from 70s (which is where most slang I encounter comes from). And these terms take a while to catch up usually, but it seems it was already circulating more broadly since 2000s.
They took a well-defined unit of time, which is relatively short, and made it mean “some unknown but very long period of time”.
So frustrating. /oldmanyellsatcloud