Is it like a nano-second or a long time?
2006-10-15 14:58:38 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous in Education & Reference ➔ Trivia
A New York minute is a very short period of time, sometimes significantly shorter than sixty seconds, and sometimes a form of hyperbole for "perhaps faster than you would believe is possible". The term refers to the common perception that New York City is very busy, with much happening at all hours of the day, and people often in a hurry and likely to be impatient.
It is a joke, especially in New York City, to define a New York minute as the amount of time between the light in front of you turning green and the taxicab behind you honking, and to suggest this may actually be half a second or so, or a negative quantity of time.
A New York minute may be compared to the idea of Internet time, and contrasted with those of a country mile and Colored People's Time.
This usage may have inspired use of the same term to mean "intensive verbal abuse".
2006-10-15 16:50:44 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
I don't know this for certain, but I would venture to say that expression came about because New York is very fast paced, everyone always in a hurry ect. So a minute somewhere else would "be" just that, a minute. In New York, probably half a minute. I hope this helped.
2006-10-17 10:13:45 · answer #2 · answered by Republican!!! 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
A New York minute is slang and means, like in a nano-second.
2006-10-15 22:02:02 · answer #3 · answered by MUD 5 · 1⤊ 2⤋
It is like a nano-second...
Meaning, everything in New York is fast, everyone thinks the minutes are faster too...
It is not faster or slower than any other minute, it just feels like it...
2006-10-15 22:15:36 · answer #4 · answered by lil_joes_lil_sis70 2 · 0⤊ 2⤋
It just a term used to define the fast pace in New York, supposedly faster than fast. It's also a movie, a play, and a song by Don Henley.
2006-10-16 14:19:55 · answer #5 · answered by persnickety1022 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
well new york city is very busy, so new york minute is like waaaaaaaaay smaller than a nano-second.
2006-10-15 22:50:04 · answer #6 · answered by gym_girl5 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
About 50 million on the stock market
2006-10-16 02:51:58 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
it is referance too a fast paced min or a minutes time of work at a fast pace similar to the pace of new york.
2006-10-15 22:56:59 · answer #8 · answered by rudy_rodriguez24 1 · 0⤊ 2⤋
It's a nanosecond. New Yorkers talk fast, and everything they do has to be fast.
What's the difference between a city mile and a country mile?
2006-10-15 22:01:25 · answer #9 · answered by LaCosaMasBella 3 · 0⤊ 2⤋
Fast, immediate, now. Oops! Too late!
2006-10-15 22:12:52 · answer #10 · answered by szydkids 5 · 0⤊ 2⤋