| 单词 | famous for fifteen minutes |
| 释义 | > as lemmasfamous for fifteen minutes famous for fifteen minutes and variants [now used allusively after the phrase used by Andy Warhol in quot. 1968] : briefly famous or notorious, before fading back into obscurity; cf. fifteen minutes n. at fifteen adj. and n. Additions. ΚΠ 1968 A. Warhol Andy Warhol (Exhib. Catal., Moderna Museet, Stockholm) 12 In the future everybody will be world famous for fifteen minutes. 1977 Washington Post 30 Sept. (Weekend section) 21/3 Maybe heroes are destined to remain brief flashes in our lives, as Andy Warhol once put it, with everyone getting to be famous for 15 minutes. 1991 Columbia (Columbia Univ.) Summer 26/1 A worse problem is the feeding frenzy in the industry whereby the latest famous-for-fifteen-minutes TV celebrities and politicians and entrepreneurs are paid exorbitant advances for what are essentially non-books. 1994 W. Gaddis Frolic of his Own 369 Good God talk about being famous for five minutes the Pulitzer Prize is a gimcrack out of journalism school you wrap the fish in tomorrow. 2002 Toronto Star (Nexis) 6 Feb. a25 So why the enduring appeal [of the British monarchy]? It's real celebrity at a time when anyone can be famous for fifteen minutes. < as lemmas |
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