nine-day wonder

And if you're looking for irony, the phrase "nine-day wonder" has been around for at least 400 years and probably much longer.

Ian Kershaw, a British historian who has written about Hitler, cautioned against expecting too much from the new edition of “Mein Kampf,” calling the interest surrounding its publication a “nine-day wonder.”

Later, he wryly described it as coming in on the last day of a nine-day wonder.

But with the LSO it became a nine-day wonder – press photographers on the doorstep next morning and all that.

Three years ago Engressia was a nine-day wonder in newspapers and magazines all over America because he had been discovered whistling free long-distance connections for fellow students at the University of South Florida.