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1. A Project, person etc that enjoys only short lived success. 2. Something which [disappoints] by failing to deliver anything of value, despite a showy beginning Origin This [originally] had a literal meaning, i.e. a real flash in a real pan. Muskets used to have small pans to hold the gunpowder charge. An attempt to fire [the musket] in which the gunpowder flared up without firing a bullet would be called a 'flash in the pan'. origin, The term is known since the late 17th century. Elkanah Settle, in Reflections on several of Mr. Dryden's plays 1687, had this to say:
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