Here today, gone tomorrow

Cultural  

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

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here today, gone tomorrow Idioms  

1. 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.”

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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".

From BBC • Nov. 7, 2024

It’s as if they’re here today, gone tomorrow.

From Seattle Times • Sep. 21, 2016

Dance is considered an ephemeral art form, here today, gone tomorrow, but I know that memory makes of dances edifices that cannot be destroyed.

From New York Times • Sep. 8, 2015

By the middle of 1973, the purity and power of Bowie's breakthrough had become dulled by imitation and repetition – the full stupidity of fashion or trend evanescence: here today, gone tomorrow.

From The Guardian • Mar. 9, 2013

Leah and I tried to explain to her how in Africa the roads are here today, gone tomorrow.

From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver