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mad minute
(UK, military) A test of marksmanship with 15 aimed shots at a 12-inch target at 200 yards within one minute.
minute puddings
plural of minute pudding
minute repeaters
plural of minute repeater
two-minute silences
not a minute too soon
(idiomatic) at the last possible moment; just in time / (idiomatic) after an undesirable delay; undesirably late
three-minute warning
(Canadian football) A timeout and warning given to the coaches with three minutes to go before the end of each half; after this point, the clock stops at the end of every play. Analogous to the two-minute warning of American football.
twenty-minute egg
(dated, slang) A very hard-boiled person; one who is tough and unsentimental
four-minute warnings
four-minute warning
(idiomatic) A UK Government public alert system in use during the Cold War to advise of an imminent nuclear attack. The "four-minute" adjective was not an accurate timing, but simply used as a euphemism to refer to the incoming attack as being from nuclear missiles.
