A: Mary has been missing from our parties lately. What’s up?

B: She found a new job as a sales manager last month, which is keeping her busy. Now she’s constantly out of town on biz trips.

A: She is a very capable young woman.

B: Indeed. In a New York minute she signed the job contract and was off on her first assignment.

Note: This idiom refers to a very short amount of time. New York has always been known for moving at a fast pace and talking very quickly, so a New York minute is presumably even faster than a minute anywhere else. There have been a song and films by the name “New York Minute.” It was also the name of a 2005 television episode of “Law & Order.”