单词 | here today, gone tomorrow |
释义 | Idioms and Phrases with Here today, gone tomorrowhere today, gone tomorrow Lacking permanence, fleeting. For example, His book attracted a great deal of attention but quickly went out of print—here 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): “This proverb that man is here today and gone tomorrow.” The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary Copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Here today, gone tomorrowWhat is present or important now may be absent or irrelevant in the future. Words nearby Here today, gone tomorrowheresy, here, there, and everywhere, heretic, heretical, hereto, Here today, gone tomorrow, heretofore, here to stay, hereunder, hereunto, hereupon The New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy, Third Edition Copyright © 2005 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved. |
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