FLASH IN THE PAN

Definition: FLASH IN THE PAN

FLASH IN THE PAN

1. See under Flash .

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Failure

Noun: failure; nonsuccess, nonfulfillment; dead failure, successlessness; abortion, miscarriage; brutum fulmen; labor in vain; (inutility); no go; inefficacy; inefficaciousness; Adjective: vain attempt, ineffectual attempt, abortive attempt, abortive efforts; flash in the pan, "lame and impotent conclusion"; frustration; slip 'twixt cup and lip; (disappointment).

Come to nothing, end in smoke; flat out ; fall to the ground, fall through, fall dead, fall stillborn, fall flat; slip through one's fingers; hang fire, miss fire; flash in the pan, collapse; topple down; (descent); go to wrack and ruin; (destruction).

Impotence

Telum imbelle, brutum fulmen, blank, blank cartridge, flash in the pan, vox et proeterea nihil, dead letter, bit of waste paper, dummy; paper tiger; Quaker gun.

Transientness

Noun: transience, transientness; Adjective: evanescence, impermanence, fugacity, caducity, mortality, span; nine days' wonder, bubble, Mayfly; spurt; flash in the pan; temporary arrangement, interregnum.

Unimportance

Nine days' wonder, ridiculus mus; flash in the pan; (impotence); much ado about nothing; (overestimation).

Unproductiveness

Verb: be - unproductive; Adjective: hang fire, flash in the pan, come to nothing.

Unsubstantiality

Nothing, naught, nil, nullity, zero, cipher, no one, nobody; never a one, ne'er a one; no such thing, none in the world; nothing whatever, nothing at all, nothing on earth; not a particle; (smallness); all talk, moonshine, stuff and nonsense; matter of no importance, matter of no consequence. thing of naught, man of straw, John Doe and Richard Roe, faggot voter; nominis umbra, nonentity; flash in the pan, vox et praeterea nihil.

Books

• Flash In The Pan (reference)

• Flash in the Pan (Ginger Tea Series) (reference)

  (more book examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Expression using "FLASH IN THE PAN": To flash in the pan. Additional references.

Albanian

përpjekje e kotë, dështim (abortion, anticlimax, bust, collapse, come down, crash, cropper, discomfiture, fail, failing, failure, fiasco, fizzle, flop, frost, frustration, licking, miscarriage, no go, reverse). (various references)

Arabic 

‏عاطفة سريعة, ‏جهد مخفق. (various references)

Bulgarian 

фиаско (bathos, dead frost, fiasco, lash up), несполучлив опит (fumble). (various references)

French

feu de paille. (various references)

Greek 

σαπουνόφουσκα (soap bubble), τζίφος. (various references)

Hebrew 

ארוע חולף. (various references)

Hungarian

szalmaláng (a flash in the pan). (various references)

Pig Latin

ashflay inay ethay anpay

Romanian

furtunã trecãtoare, strãlucire efemerã, eşec dupã un început strãlucit, ceva ce trece repede, învãpãiere de o clipã. (various references)

Russian 

осечка (misfire), неудачная попытка. (various references)

Spanish

chiripa (fluke, scratch), casualidad favorable. (various references)

Swedish

kortlivad succe. (various references)

Turkish

saman alevi. (various references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-4 letters: aphanites, faineants, fishplate, inhalants, palatines, phthalins, plantains, thaneship.

-5 letters: alanines, annalist, anthelia, apathies, aphanite, aphelian, ashplant, asthenia, faineant, fantails, fantasie, fleapits, haplites, infantas, infantes, inflates, inhalant, insheath, naphthas, palatine, panelist, pantiles, pheasant, phthalin, plainest, plantain, platanes, platinas, pleasant, shinleaf, stapelia, tailfans, thespian.