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Free sign upThe phrase "a flash in a" is not correct and incomplete in written English.
It is typically part of the idiom "a flash in the pan," which refers to something that is short-lived or temporary.
Example: "The new product was a flash in a pan, gaining popularity quickly but fading just as fast."
Alternatives: "a brief moment" or "a short-lived phenomenon."
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'We're not trying to make a flash in a pan, we're trying to make a star who burns for a very long time'.
Which of them do you think have potential to be successful, and which ones will be a flash in a pan?
A little more than a flash in a number of cases would have been sufficient to impress one with the character's mood.
But more importantly, this doesn't feel like a flash in a pan season in which they've caught the competition off-guard.
He thought of the Sheikh's distant gaze drifting out over the invisible hills in the night, then coming to rest on him for a brief moment, like a flash in a mirror that lit him up inside".
If this is a flash in a pan, it's an unprecedented one; if this is something more, expect the oft-empty blue seats in Yankee Stadium to start filling up again.
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Browning here glibly refutes the accusation that he is a flash-in-the pan or an accident.
Huh? Susan Boyle a "flavor of the week?" A "flash-in-the-pan?" What was Dave thinking?
As for the Louis Ghost, is it a classic or a flash in the pan?
First thing I knew, there was a flash in middle of lawn, then a flash on the other side.
Crocs were dismissed as a fashion fad, a flash in the pan and as the ugliest shoes ever invented.
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