a flash in the pan
C1CEFR level
45/100Rarity: uncommon
NeutralRegister
A sudden but brief success that is not repeated or sustained.
Critics dismissed the band's first hit as a flash in the pan, but they went on to sell millions.
Rarity runs from 0 (a word everyone knows) to 100 (almost never seen outside specialist or literary writing). Level is the word's real difficulty on the CEFR scale, from A1 to C2.
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