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one-shot wonder
noun[ C ]
informaluk /ˌwʌn.ʃɒt ˈwʌn.dər/ us /ˌwʌn.ʃɑːt ˈwʌn.dɚ/
a person or group that is successful only once, or something successful that is not repeated:
After his first successful novel, he wondered if he would be a one-shot wonder.
The team have proven they weren't just one-shot wonders.
There is a distinguished list of one-shot wonders in literature; Harper Lee 's To Kill a Mockingbird is just such a case.
Was he just a one-shot wonder, or would he be back?
It is unfair to call Sylvia Plath a "one-shot wonder" because she died just one month after The Bell Jar was published.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Successful (things or people)
a head of steamidiom
achiever
alive
alpha female
alpha male
arrive
ascendant
have something in your pocketidiom
have the world at your feetidiom
healthily
heavy hitteridiom
high-flyer
pocket
rail
represent
successfully
superachiever
superhit
superseller
swimmingly
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