Sentences with phrase «flash in the pan»
The phrase "flash in the pan" refers to something that appears promising or successful at first, but then quickly fades away or fails. Full definition
A lot of what he's said is just flash in the pan.
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He was an interesting flash in the pan at least.
There are plenty of dead - end dates, flash in the pan relationships and promising prospects that slowly turn sour.
Talking of flashes in the pan, what happened to Lukaku?
Since David Miliband's apparent leadership «nudge» back in July seems to have been a mere flash in the pan, Brown must be praying that Britain's Olympic triumph will rub off on his own Team GB.
But to keep the campaign from flashing in the pan, Josh and company planned to make sure that political journalists and CNN employees in particular couldn't avoid it.
And the suits in their corporate towers will continue to say e-books and whatever comes after them are only flashes in the pan and soon everyone will return to printed books, even as the price of print media continues to increase.
Believe that all man's ideals are delusions, all his hopes mirages, that any seeming progress in the past was only an accidental flash in the pan.
She will make the talk show rounds like so many flash in the pans, and ride her little donkey into Jerusalem amid waving palms.
The asparagus got pretty tender under the broiler, but if you have thicker asparagus, you can quickly flash it in a pan before putting it on the pizza:)
Wilcox was a MUCH better, more dynamic player and he was a literal flash in the pan.
The Frenchman shone when first brought into the Arsenal first - team in the 2014/15 season, but that proved a misleading flash in the pan and if Wenger is serious about winning anything he needs a top class midfielder to come in ASAP.
They will likely be seen as a possible flash in the pan, whereas Liv and Ars are two of the traditional big three.
Alexis Well he told his National team mate Vidal not to sign with us (or at least that is what Vidal said in a interview) I am not sure Alexis is going to be as good this season I am still wait to see mode flash in the pan has happened before remember when we all Loved Arshivin as our little Russian Messi.
The token Jap Ryo injury wreck Wilshere flash in the pan Chamberlain 16 mill cart horse Wellbeck.
I'm reminded of some dude named Icarus... and of the term «hubris» and the phrase «pride before the fall»... McGregor was a supernova flash in the pan, and as I've said before, he's probably going to go out just as quickly.
Jan De Bont would reveal himself to be a directorial flash in the pan, delivering with Speed 2: Cruise Control the worst sequel to a genuine hit since John Boorman ordered up a mess of locusts and excreted Exorcist II: The Heretic.
And if the state can't get the right elements in place to do that by 2014, it would be better off delaying the new curriculum a couple of years and doing it right, rather than allowing common core to become yet another educational flash in the pan that never lives up to its promise.
Panel discussion You Only Love Me When You're In Dallas: Questioning Biennales on Saturday, April 14, will do what its title indicates using what D Magazine calls the «deliberate flash in the pan» biennial as a conceptual counterpoint for the conversation.
These days it seems even more foolish because it suggests a momentary flash in the pan.
Repurposing an established community into a gaming one was a non-starter, and what's left of the brief Facebook gaming flash in the pan is just an oily residue clinging to the side of the news feed.
Most bitcoin faucets are nothing more than spammy flash in the pan type sites that offer no long term value for the end user which is why most of them die off after a while.
All that together makes HTC's latest effort more flash in the pan than thundering success.
Doodle Draw for iOS and Android will be familiar to anyone who played Draw Something... because it's a blatant copy of the 2012 flash in the pan mobile game that got acquired by Zynga for an exorbitant price.
Regulators, too, were largely untroubled over what they viewed as a novel flash in the pan.
A duo of Romanians proves their new era of cinema is not a mere flash in the pan; they include Bacalaureat, by Cristian Mungiu, who has a habit of getting things right in unlikely circumstances.
Mishra does not believe the robot ETFs are flashes in the pan or the surge in investor interest is a sign of a bubble in stocks.
It wasn't a flash in the pan with Hartline gathering five performances with 70 yards or more, but those have been too sporadic to put any stock in starting him this week, even with it being a favorable matchup.
«Moscato went away because it was a flash in the pan.
Many investors are therefore wondering: Can the Canadian dollar break above its recent highs, or was this just another flash in the pan?
My bet is that Lululemon either proves to be a flash in the pan, or else the company's aggressive expansion plans will prove its undoing,» wrote columnist Sean Silcoff in the National Post.
There are some sound investments to be made in tech IPOs, the trick is separating them from the flashes in the pan.
We've seen over $ 2 billion in token sales in about 140 ICOs this year, according to Coinschedule, quieting arguments made by some that ICOs are merely a flash in the pan likely to fade any minute now when a new fad emerges.
«[«CryptoKitties»] is not a flash in the pan, it's not a fad,» Giang said, pointing to how the kitties could live for thousands of years.
My editor at Macmillan worried that the book might be making too much of the phenomenon, that all the talk about ecology was «a flash in the pan.»
Things take time — especially if you're wanting to build something of value, build something of worth, of depth; that's not a flash in the pan.
It must be a «typo,» a flash in the pan.
Most of us reasonable people thought it was a flash in the pan and would go away.
It wasn't a flash in the pan, either.
Ricki, your «flash in the pan» posts, which are supposed to be simple, are still amazing.
Given that bacon is often cited as the animal product which meat free eaters most hanker after, vegetarians and MFM supporters will be hoping this is more than just a flash in the pan.
Biotech firm launches with online video of lab - grown meatball, hoping to prove animal - free meat more than just a flash in the pan
Roethlisberger likely wants to prove the 5 - interception debacle in Week 5 was nothing more than a flash in the pan, not a sign of an opponent who has Pittsburgh's franchise quarterback's number.
Mharez was a flash in the pan for 1 season.
I have only seen him play once in a UCL game but Wenger clearly rates him massively and this is no flash in the pan approach (if true).
Everyone seems so sure Wenger is a genius again, personally I say it's a flash in the pan, but let's see at the end of the season.