nine days' wonder
Example Sentences
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She needn't marry out of pique because of a nine days' wonder like that.
From Vision House by Williamson, A. M. (Alice Muriel)
It was a nine days' wonder in the neighbourhood, and the oddities of Hawthorn were held to be dangerous by the squires, while farmers cursed him for his liberality.
From The Life of Thomas Wanless, Peasant by Wilson, Alexander Johnstone
I would know my Latin lesson so that it was a nine days’ wonder, and for weeks after would be told it was scandalous to be so clever and so idle.
From Reveries over Childhood and Youth by Yeats, W. B. (William Butler)
As they had come, so they had gone, and the matter remained a nine days' wonder.
From The Storm Centre by Murfree, Mary Noailles
The ice carnival and John's escape were a nine days' wonder.
From Diana Tempest, Volume III (of 3) by Cholmondeley, Mary
