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flash in the pan

NOUN
  1. someone who enjoys transient success but then fails

How To Use flash in the pan In A Sentence

  • People will be looking in to see how good we are now and whether our success has just been a flash in the pan.
  • He needed to prove that his success was not just a flash in the pan.
  • I think that she is a flash in the pan that will flame out and head back to cicely alaska. Election Central Saturday Roundup
  • He needed to prove that his success was not just a flash in the pan.
  • Many of his contemporaries shared his surprise and dismay and assumed that this apparent triumph of an uncivilised eastern nation over the best fighting machine in Europe was but a flash in the pan.
  • Viewed from the perspective of history, life is but a flash in the pan.
  • We are not a flash in the pan. Times, Sunday Times
  • He needed to prove that his success was not just a flash in the pan.
  • His first novel was a flash in the pan, and he hasn't written anything decent since.
  • Sadly, their success was just a flash in the pan.
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