nine days' wonder

noun

: something or someone that creates a short-lived sensation

called also nine day wonder

Examples of nine days' wonder in a Sentence

She left her husband and ran away with a younger man. It was a nine days' wonder.

Word History

First Known Use

1592, in the meaning defined above

Rhymes for nine days' wonder

• asunder
• blunder
• bunder
• funder
• plunder
• sunder
• thunder
• under