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)
—Did any particular circumstance give rise to the saying, "A nine days' wonder?"
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)
Let their old host and hostess enjoy a nine days' wonder.
From Trevethlan (Vol 3 of 3) A Cornish Story. by Watson, William Davy
A few of the smaller chieftains, like this Saxon Oswald, held their ground and fought it out; but it was a nine days' wonder, and nothing more.
From The Last of the Vikings by Bowling, John
