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单词 one-hit wonder
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one-hit wonder
one-hit wonder n. colloquial (a) Baseball a pitcher celebrated for throwing a one-hitter; (b) a performer, etc., who gains only one popular success before returning to relative anonymity, or who achieves only one notable hit in a particular genre or medium; a song, etc., by such a performer.
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1909 Sun (Baltimore) 26 Aug. 10/1 (headline) Kissinger, the no-hit wonder, is bumped by the Birds.]
1914 Middletown (N.Y.) Daily Times-Press 3 July 3/1 (headline) One-hit wonder fails to hold locals down.
1954 Shreveport (Louisiana) Times 28 Dec. 8 a/2 Liberace apparently wants to get in on this bonanza [of making movies featuring TV personalities] but he does not want to become a one-hit wonder.
1956 Carroll (Iowa) Daily Times Herald 1 May 2/6 Ramon Monzant, the New York Giants' one-hit wonder, almost sat out the 1956 season.
1958 Ottawa Citizen 27 Dec. 12/2 Several one-hit wonders of the old year, will vanish into shellac obscurity.
1988 Weekend Austral. 2 July (Colour Suppl.) 5/3 By tradition, Bond girls have always been one-hit wonders—here today,..gone tomorrow.
2007 Wired Aug. 76/3 The Irish one-man band is back with electronic folk-rock that proves he's no one-hit wonder.
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