nine-day wonder

短语

发音

UK /ˌnaɪn‿deɪ ˈwʌndə/
AU
US /ˌnaɪn‿deɪ ˈwʌndɚ/

词形变化

nine-day wonders 复数

别名

nine days' wonder nine day wonder

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    Something that generates interest for a limited time and is then abandoned.

    习语

词源

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”.

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