I have a spare minute vs I have a spare moment

Both phrases are correct and commonly used in English. They convey the same meaning of having some extra time available. The choice between 'spare minute' and 'spare moment' is a matter of personal preference, as both are idiomatic and widely accepted.

Last updated: March 31, 2024

I have a spare minute

This phrase is correct and commonly used in English to indicate having some extra time available.

This phrase is used to express that you have a small amount of free time that can be used for a quick task or activity.

Examples:

I have a spare minute, so I'll quickly check my emails.
Do you have a spare minute to help me with this task?

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I don't have a spare minute.
With the launch preparations I haven't got a spare minute.
Man, she got a spare minute, she snatch up anybody.
Please, I spend every spare minute I have writing.
Doctor Donovan, got a spare minute?
I mean, you barely had a spare minute in New York, three jobs just to afford your social calendar.
Man, she got a spare minute, she snatch up anybody.
She spent every spare minute in the lab.
It's how he spent every spare minute.
We spent every spare minute with my dad.
I'm afraid your client already has used all my spare minutes.
Every spare minute he had he was at home.
I'm writing to you once again, my dearest Katerina Matveyevna, now that I've got a spare minute.
Whenever he had a spare minute!
So he, every spare minute, Walt was at some card table somewhere.
I have indeed left the President a minute to spare so that he can close the proceedings.
We can spare five minutes for this.
You can spare five minutes to put clothes in the dryer.
Well, if you could spare a minute.
Callie, you can spare 10 minutes.

Alternatives:

I have a bit of time to spare
I have a few minutes to spare
I have some extra time
I have a moment to spare

I have a spare moment

This phrase is correct and commonly used in English to indicate having some extra time available.

This phrase is used to express that you have a brief period of free time that can be used for a quick task or activity.

Examples:

Let me know if you have a spare moment to discuss the project.
I have a spare moment, so I'll grab a coffee.

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Like, if you can find a spare moment.
Like, if you can find a spare moment.
Every spare moment, I read.
But he read books in every spare moment he could find.
Spare moments and... Well, we became friends.
The thought had crossed my mind, in my spare moments.
Every spare moment he has, he spends with them.
Study the papers, stay on them, but in your spare moments, I need you for a thousand things.
Ever since the accident, you've devoted every spare moment to taking care of me.
Ever since the accident, you've devoted every spare moment to taking care of me.
If You Spend Your Every Spare Moment Drawing Your Pictures, Dreaming Of Another Life, You're Going To Wind Up Never Living The One You Got.
Or are you going to work every spare moment right through Christmas?
WHILE WE'VE GOT A SPARE MOMENT, YOU KNOW. LOOK, HAVE ANOTHER BASH AT THE FORM
Every five-minute coffee break at work, every night, every weekend, every spare moment of their lives, they gave to me.
Every day, every night, every spare moment.
We see the Spring dances every year.We can spare a moment.
I'm sure he can spare one moment from the apostles.
I'm sure you can spare a moment.
I have a spare seat in my car.
I have a spare suit in the bathroom.

Alternatives:

I have a bit of time to spare
I have a few minutes to spare
I have some extra time
I have a minute to spare

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I have a spare minute vs I have a spare moment