| 单词 | fifteen minutes |
| 释义 | > as lemmasfifteen minutes fifteen minutes n. (also fifteen minutes of fame) [after famous for fifteen minutes at famous adj. Additions] a brief period of fame or notoriety. ΚΠ 1979 Washington Post Mag. 8 July 9/1 ‘Like if I didn't break the world record, people thought I had a bad meet.’ Nehemiah doesn't want Warhol's 15 minutes of fame to go away. 1989 ‘D. Bowie’ & R. Gabrels I can't Read (song) in ‘Tin Machine’ Tin Machine (CD sleeve notes) When you see a famous smile No matter where you run your mile To be right in that photograph Andy where's my fifteen minutes. 1996 Guardian 7 May i. 7/3 The people of La Iglesuela del Cid, a hamlet in the remote Spanish region of Teruel, had been revelling in their fifteen minutes of fame. But they watched in despair yesterday as the American actress Faye Dunaway was forced by a bishop to leave. 2001 P. Marber Howard Katz i. 61 Hideous, hideous egos—all of them—monsters—kicking and screaming for their ‘fifteen minutes’—and on top of that I'm brown-nosing the press. < as lemmas |
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