nine-day wonder
noun/ˌnaɪn‿deɪ ˈwʌndə/UK/ˌnaɪn‿deɪ ˈwʌndɚ/US
Etymology
From nine + day + wonder (“something that causes amazement or awe”). References to a period of nine days or nights to describe the length of a short-lived fad date from as early as the 14th century; see, for instance, Troilus and Criseyde (c. 1380s) by the English poet Geoffrey Chaucer (c. 1340s – 1400; spelling modernized): “Ek [besides] wonder last but nine days never in town”.
Definitions
Something that generates interest for a limited time and is then abandoned.
- […] I am content this vvinter to haue my doings read for a toye, that in ſommer they may be ready for traſh. It is not ſtraunge vvhen as the greateſt vvonder laſteth but nyne dayes, that a nevve vvorke ſhould not endure but three monethes.
- This that I did vvas for a policie, / To ſmooth and keepe the murther ſecret, / VVhich at a nine daies vvonder being ore-blovvne, / My gentle ſiſter vvill I novv inlarge.
- I vvas ſeuen of the nine daies out of the vvonder, before you came:[…]
The neighborhood
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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA