a flash in the pan

a flash in the pan

The Chinese idiom, Pinyin is t á nhu ā y ī Xi à n, which means that a beautiful thing or scene appears and soon disappears. It's from the Lotus Sutra: convenience products.

The origin of Idioms

"The Lotus Sutra of miaoha · convenient product" says: "if the Buddha tells the sari Buddha that it is a miaoha, then all Buddhas come to say it at the same time, such as youtanbo flower, and then they can hear it at the same time." (yutanbo flower in the original does not mean Epiphyllum)

Idiom usage

Subject predicate type; as predicate, object, attribute; refers to things that will soon disappear. example this kind of grand occasion is just ~.

Analysis of Idioms

[near synonym]: fleeting, good time is not long [antonym]: eternal