nine days' wonder
Example Sentences
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The affair had exceeded the time of the proverbial "nine days' wonder," and it was only in the City or to those deeply interested that the good news became really known.
From Englefield Grange or Mary Armstrong's Troubles by Paull, H. B.
Now it became a nine days’ wonder that they should have been so foolish as to admit faithless Mignon into their club.
From Marjorie Dean High School Senior by Chase, Josephine
The engagement had been a veritable nine days’ wonder.
From An Unknown Lover by Vaizey, George de Horne, Mrs.
It was a nine days' wonder in the neighbourhood, and the oddities of Hawthorn were held to be dangerous by the squires, while farmers cursed him for his liberality.
From The Life of Thomas Wanless, Peasant by Wilson, Alexander Johnstone
On "the street" it was a nine days' wonder how so colossal a scheme could be foisted upon them and carried so near a successful culmination, and then, as usual, it was forgotten.
From Rockhaven by Munn, Charles Clark
