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nine days' wonder
noun as in momentary success
Example Sentences
As the matter is to be a “nine days’ wonder,” they are evidently determined that there shall be no cause of after complaint.
But Kenyon and Bramsdean knew that the achievement would be but a nine days' wonder.
The rapidity with which Nyoda got a project under way was a nine days’ wonder to Sherry, who usually spent more time in deliberating a course of action than she did in carrying it out.
There was an occasional murder mystery, always more than a nine days' wonder; the public had not yet grown callous.
It is not quite a week since the horses were taken; the 'nine days' wonder' is still alive.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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