Definition of Flash in the pan

1. Noun. Someone who enjoys transient success but then fails.


Definition of Flash in the pan

1. Noun. (idiomatic) A transient occurrence with no long-term effect. ¹

2. Noun. (idiomatic) A career notable for early success not followed by significant accomplishment. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Flash In The Pan

flash burn
flash camera
flash card
flash cards
flash dispersal
flash drive
flash drives
flash evaporator
flash fiction
flash fictions
flash flood
flash floods
flash frame
flash frames
flash in the pan (current term)
flash keratoconjunctivitis
flash lamp
flash lock
flash locks
flash memory
flash method
flash mob
flash mobber
flash mobs
flash photography
flash point
flash points
flash suppressor
flash welding

Literary usage of Flash in the pan

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Chapters of Opera: Being Historical and Critical Observations and Records by Henry Edward Krehbiel (1908)
"... "QUEEN OF SHEBA"—FIRST PERFORMANCE OF WAGNER'S " MEISTER- SINGER "—PATTI IN CONCERT AND OPERA—A flash in the pan AT THE ACADEMY OF MUSIC—THE TRANSFORMED ..."

2. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1821)
"... with its master, Lieutenant Abraham Flash-in-the-pan. (I couid give the genealogy of this illustrious animal, for the benefit of my ..."

3. The General Stud-book, Containing Pedigrees of Race Horses, &c. &c. from the (1893)
"... in 1886, her dam, Epidemic, by Flash in the Pan, ont of La Quarantaine, by Contran (son of Fitz Gladiator). 1891 bc Catchit. by Banneret (son of ..."

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