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Here today, gone tomorrow
- What is present or important now may be absent or irrelevant in the future.
Idioms and Phrases
Lacking permanence, fleeting. For example, His book attracted a great deal of attention but quickly went out of print鈥攈ere today and gone tomorrow . Originally alluding to the briefness of the human lifespan, this phrase was first recorded in John Calvin's Life and Conversion of a Christian Man (1549): 鈥淭his proverb that man is here today and gone tomorrow.鈥Example Sentences
However, he became better known for storming out of a television interview, when broadcaster Sir Robin Day pressing him on defence spending cuts referred to him as a "here today, gone tomorrow politician".
He retained a sense of humour about the incident, later entitling his memoir 'Here Today, Gone Tomorrow'.
鈥淚 keep a mental picture of Meyerbeer,鈥 he said, referring to the once ubiquitous and now rarely heard 19th-century composer, 鈥渏ust to remind myself: Here today, gone tomorrow.鈥
That raises a lot of concerns, mostly around how volatile crypto can be; 鈥渉ere today, gone tomorrow鈥 is an experience most crypto investors have seen in their crypto wallets, even if they have achieved long-term success.
鈥淚 was like, wait a minute 鈥 there isn鈥檛 a line in the sand that鈥檚 like, it鈥檚 here today, gone tomorrow.鈥
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Definitions and idiom definitions from 亚洲网紅露点 Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, 漏 Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage庐 Idioms Dictionary copyright 漏 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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