| 单词 | here today and gone tomorrow |
| 释义 | > as lemmashere today and gone tomorrow e. here today and gone tomorrow: a catchphrase indicating a constant change of events or someone (or something) remaining in a place for a short time. ΘΚΠ the world > time > change > change [phrase] tempora mutantur1577 the wind has changed1615 here today and gone tomorrow1687 plus ça change1893 the world > time > duration > shortness or brevity in time > shortness in time [phrase] > here today and gone tomorrow here today and gone tomorrow1687 1687 A. Behn Luckey Chance iv. i. 47 Faith Sir, we are here to Day and gone to Morrow. 1776 H. Newdigate Let. in A. E. Newdigate-Newdegate Cheverels (1898) i. 10 Going over for a day to Arbury to beat for Wood Cocks..as they are birds of passage, here today and gone tomorrow. 1898 R. Kipling Day's Work 196 Here to-day and gone to-morrow. Didn't come to stay for ever. 1944 W. S. Maugham Razor's Edge iv. iv. 132 Even in the old days you could never count on his being where you expected him to be. He was here today and gone tomorrow. 1972 Listener 23 Nov. 690/2 We [sc. the TUC] put forward proposals for a general rise in pensions—not a ‘Christmas Box’ that is here today and gone tomorrow. < as lemmas |
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