passing fancy
Example Sentences
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Before dismissing Netflix’s trivia-based “Bullsh*t: The Game Show” as another passing fancy, remember that it is merely carrying on part of a larger quiz show tradition of lying.
From Salon ● May 4, 2022
I can see why you’d assume a 4-year-old’s commitment to vegetarianism would be a passing fancy.
From Slate ● Jan. 28, 2020
While Cowan acknowledges that goat yoga will be a passing fancy for most, she loves the idea of it.
From The Guardian ● Dec. 3, 2018
It is still too soon to tell whether this is a passing fancy or something here to stay, though mail order catalogues and garden centers are betting on the latter.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 21, 2015
Everyone here thinks my interest is just a passing fancy, since they’ve never heard of a teenager with an appreciation of mythology.
From "The Diary of a Young Girl" by Anne Frank
