(at) any minute (now)
idiom
: very soon
The bus should be here any minute now.
I'm expecting a phone call any minute.
Things could change at any minute.
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Ray is an enigma and a mystery, a man who zips into town on a motorbike like a phantom and could just as easily evaporate at any minute.
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Ryan Lattanzio, IndieWire, 18 May 2025
What’s fascinating is how so much of the film commits to the waiting that exists during battle: the taxing, dull tension of knowing that something might happen any minute.
—David Sims, The Atlantic, 12 Apr. 2025
Act fast, since the coupon can be revoked at any minute.
—Shubham Yewale, PC Magazine, 6 May 2025
What a strange phenomenon the Disney Channel of the 2000s was: all those squeaky clean sitcoms about sweet kids with big dreams; all that ever-lurking paranoia that one of the sweet kids would pull a Britney any minute now.
—Constance Grady, Vox, 19 Feb. 2025
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Ryan Lattanzio, IndieWire, 18 May 2025
What’s fascinating is how so much of the film commits to the waiting that exists during battle: the taxing, dull tension of knowing that something might happen any minute.
—David Sims, The Atlantic, 12 Apr. 2025
Act fast, since the coupon can be revoked at any minute.
—Shubham Yewale, PC Magazine, 6 May 2025
What a strange phenomenon the Disney Channel of the 2000s was: all those squeaky clean sitcoms about sweet kids with big dreams; all that ever-lurking paranoia that one of the sweet kids would pull a Britney any minute now.
—Constance Grady, Vox, 19 Feb. 2025
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“(at) any minute (now).” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/%28at%29%20any%20minute%20%28now%29. Accessed 29 May. 2025.
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