Here today, gone tomorrow

1. What is present or important now may be absent or irrelevant in the future.

Idioms and Phrases

Lacking permanence, fleeting. For example, His book attracted a great deal of attention but quickly went out of print—here today and gone tomorrow. Originally alluding to the briefness of the human lifespan, this phrase was first recorded in John Calvin's Life and Conversion of a Christian Man (1549): “This proverb that man is here today and gone tomorrow.”

Example Sentences

However, he became better known for storming out of a television interview, when broadcaster Sir Robin Day pressing him on defence spending cuts referred to him as a "here today, gone tomorrow politician".

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He retained a sense of humour about the incident, later entitling his memoir 'Here Today, Gone Tomorrow'.

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“I keep a mental picture of Meyerbeer,” he said, referring to the once ubiquitous and now rarely heard 19th-century composer, “just to remind myself: Here today, gone tomorrow.”

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That raises a lot of concerns, mostly around how volatile crypto can be; “here today, gone tomorrow” is an experience most crypto investors have seen in their crypto wallets, even if they have achieved long-term success.

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“I was like, wait a minute — there isn’t a line in the sand that’s like, it’s here today, gone tomorrow.”

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