nine days' wonder

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.