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Ordinaryking Posted 15 years ago
Vocabulary

Do these sentences have the same meaning?

1.Please wait a moment.

2.Please wait in a tick.

can i use the word "tick" here? thx
  

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Please wait in a tick. I've never heard this in the US. "

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ordinaryking2.Please wait in a tick.
I've never heard this in the US.

Sometimes we say "Just wait a sec," for "second."

"I'll be with you in a sec."
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and can i use I'll be with you in a tick?
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ordinarykingand can i use I'll be with you in a tick?
That might depend on which countries you wish to use it in.

Where did you find the expression?
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do you mean this sentence has some problem?

And i found it on yahoo.hk
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Forgive me for repeating myself. As a 75-year-old native speaker of US English, I've never heard the expression. But I think the meaning is clear enough.

My suspicion is that it's used only in certain countries. I was hoping that someone might confirm that.

Are you saying that you heard it only once (on Yahoo)?

It's probably impossible to trace the country of origin.
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