"nine-day wonder" meaning in All languages combined

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          "text": "But vvhen the frequent Soule-departing Bell / Has pav'd their eares vvith her familiar knell, / It is reputed but a nine dayes vvonder, / They neither feare the Thund'rer, nor his Thunder; […]",
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          "text": "[O]ut of Germany come mesmerism and all the other \"isms\" that pass for nine-day wonders.",
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          "text": "Well, dear editor, I suppose you are, like myself, wearied with the \"nine-day wonder,\" and I will merely add that I have thought it possible that in this case, as in many others I have known, the amniotic sac, by some means, was ruptured and the fluid all passed out.",
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          "text": "As the matter is to be a \"nine days' wonder,\" they are evidently determined that there shall be no cause of after complaint.",
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          "text": "Harold Russell, who plays handless Homer Parrish in The Best Years of Our Lives, is not only a nine-day wonder in the movies but also one of the best-adjusted veterans of World War II. The most widely publicized double amputee of the war, Russell realizes that, though there is talk of his getting an Academy Award, he is strictly a one-shot and will probably act in no more movies.",
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          "text": "In his letter to this journal Mr. Lawrence remarked that some traders were waiting to see if \"Condor\" was merely a nine days' wonder before scheduling its use by their goods.",
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          "text": "So far as we're concerned, the ashes of Endymion can stay buried for another two hundred years—or another two million. It doesn't matter; come the day when somebody stumbles over the tombstones, they'll just be an archaeological find: a nine day wonder. By then, we'll be out among the stars. Earth will be just our cradle.",
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          "text": "It's actually rather easy to assess the scientific influence of, for instance, fractals or chaos. […] You can't dismiss something as a nine-day wonder when it has survived for nine thousand days and is currently thriving.",
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          "text": "Well, dear editor, I suppose you are, like myself, wearied with the \"nine-day wonder,\" and I will merely add that I have thought it possible that in this case, as in many others I have known, the amniotic sac, by some means, was ruptured and the fluid all passed out.",
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          "text": "As the matter is to be a \"nine days' wonder,\" they are evidently determined that there shall be no cause of after complaint.",
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          "text": "Harold Russell, who plays handless Homer Parrish in The Best Years of Our Lives, is not only a nine-day wonder in the movies but also one of the best-adjusted veterans of World War II. The most widely publicized double amputee of the war, Russell realizes that, though there is talk of his getting an Academy Award, he is strictly a one-shot and will probably act in no more movies.",
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      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "flash in the pan"
        },
        {
          "word": "seven-day wonder"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "idiomatic"
      ],
      "wikipedia": [
        "Geoffrey Chaucer",
        "Troilus and Criseyde"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˌnaɪn‿deɪ ˈwʌndə/",
      "tags": [
        "Received-Pronunciation"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˌnaɪn‿deɪ ˈwʌndɚ/",
      "tags": [
        "General-American"
      ]
    },
    {
      "audio": "En-au-nine-day wonder.oga",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/0/01/En-au-nine-day_wonder.oga/En-au-nine-day_wonder.oga.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/01/En-au-nine-day_wonder.oga"
    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-ʌndə(ɹ)"
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "word": "nine days' wonder"
    },
    {
      "word": "nine day wonder"
    }
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "something that generates interest for a limited time and is then abandoned",
      "word": "hetken villitys"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "something that generates interest for a limited time and is then abandoned",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "Eintagsfliege"
    },
    {
      "code": "ja",
      "lang": "Japanese",
      "note": "人の噂も七十五日 (ひとのうわさもななじゅうごにち, hito no uwasa mo nana juu go nichi, literally “people's gossip [lasts] only 75 days”)",
      "sense": "something that generates interest for a limited time and is then abandoned"
    },
    {
      "code": "nb",
      "lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
      "sense": "something that generates interest for a limited time and is then abandoned",
      "tags": [
        "feminine",
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "døgnflue"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "something that generates interest for a limited time and is then abandoned",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "słomiany ogień"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "something that generates interest for a limited time and is then abandoned",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "fogo de palha"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "note": "злоба дня f (zloba dnja, literally “one-day grudge”)",
      "sense": "something that generates interest for a limited time and is then abandoned"
    }
  ],
  "word": "nine-day wonder"
}