English

Alternative forms

• fifteen minutes of fame

Noun

15 minutes of fame pl ‎(plural only)

1. (idiomatic) A very short time in the spotlight or brief flurry with fame, after which the person or subject involved is quickly forgotten.
   • 2014, Kit Harding, Mona Lisa Harding, The Brainy Bunch: The Harding Family's Method to College Ready by Age Twelve, Simon & Schuster, ISBN 9781476759340, chapter 19, 188:

     By the time we went to Central Park, someone walking in the park said they had just seen us on Fox that morning. It was like being a rock star with a whole fifteen minutes of fame. So it was fun for a time.

   The barbershop quartet Homer put together had its 15 minutes of fame before fans simply lost interest.

Synonyms

• 15 minutes
• moment in the sun

Derived terms

• 15 megabytes of fame
• 15 minutes of shame

Related terms

• famous for fifteen minutes

Translations

See also

• legend in one's own lunchtime