The polite shop phrase 少々お待ちください becomes ちょっと待って in real life. In comedy it is the classic brake: one partner says something absurd, the other shouts ちょっと待って.
Fine with anyone casual. To a boss, ちょっと待ってください. ちょっと待て is a rough command.
During practice on a mat, something feels off, so one partner checks the mat, then attacks several times in a row.
Wait a sec!
Textbookちょっと待ってください。Dropping 'ください' from 'ちょっと待ってください' leaves the bare te-form '待って', a casual request; the very formal version is '少々お待ちください'.
Between songs, a performer is chatting with the audience when someone seems to offer them something.
Oh, then please wait a moment.
Textbookあ、では少々お待ちください。Everyday 「ちょっと」 replaces formal 「少々」, and 「お待ちください」 becomes 「待っててください」 (contracted from 「待っていて」, 'please hold on for me'). Still polite, just not formal.
The storyteller explains what they were doing when the ghost in the story showed up.
Hold on a sec.
Textbookちょっと待ってください。Polite 'ちょっと待ってください' drops 'ください' and switches to the blunt command '待て' plus 'よ': a rough, casual 'wait a sec'.
One of them is getting letters and more every day, and the other can't believe they're treating it like a quiz.
Hang on a sec.
Textbook少し待っていてください。"ちょっと" replaces "少し/少々"; "待ってて" is the contracted form of "待っていて" (the い drops out; "keep waiting") with "ください" dropped.
During an outing, one person cuts a break short and announces the next stop.
Huh? Wait a second, please.
Textbookえっ、少し待ってください。Formal '少々お待ちください' / '少し待ってください' becomes 'ちょっと待ってください': casual 'ちょっと', but 'ください' is kept. Here a surprised 'wait, what?'
A performer is talking to the people watching and says they just want to do this.
Hold on, look, look!
Textbook少々お待ちください。見てください。Formal 「少々お待ちください」 becomes 「ちょっと待って」: casual 「ちょっと」 replaces 「少々」, and the honorific 「お待ちください」 shrinks to the plain て-form 「待って」, dropping 「お」 and 「ください」.
From other routines in the library. Automatic transcripts, not yet checked line by line.
ちょっと待って means “wait, hold on”. The polite shop phrase 少々お待ちください becomes ちょっと待って in real life. In comedy it is the classic brake: one partner says something absurd, the other shouts ちょっと待って.
With friends: OK. With coworkers: OK. With a boss or teacher: careful. Fine with anyone casual. To a boss, ちょっと待ってください. ちょっと待て is a rough command.
In 1,905 live comedy routines, ちょっと待って appears in 672 lines from 168 comedians.