15 minutes of fame

English Etymology First appears c. 1968, although a use in French appears as early as 1821 in Histoire de l'Assemblée constituante by Charles Lacretelle. Often misattributed to Andy Warhol, in a catalogue of an exhibition of his art in Stockholm: “In the future everyone will be world-famous for 15 minutes.” Pronunciation en en-au-15 minutes of fame.ogg AU Noun p 15 minutes of fame en idiomatic A very short time in the spotlight or brief flurry with fame, after which the person or subject involved is quickly forgotten. en fifteen minutes of fame en 15 minutes fifteen minutes moment in the sun en Nigel Hamilton Bill Clinton: Mastering the Presidency 2007 PublicAffairs New York 274 https://archive.org/details/billclintonmaste0000hami/page/274/mode/1up 978-1-58648-516-0 Blessed with outsize lips and a contrary character, Paula [Jones] was, even to her lawyers, a loose cannon—as prepared to risk her marriage and her well-being to get the president to confess his original sin as she was intent on making big money and getting her fifteen minutes of fame. en Frederick Levy 15 Minutes of Fame: Becoming A Star In The YouTube Revolution 2008 Alpha Books https://books.google.com/books?id=miiHt_7MDLoC&pg=PT122&dq=fifteen+minutes+of+fame&hl=es&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwj2h8X32af3AhVK1BoKHdf2BagQ6AF6BAgHEAI#v=onepage&πq=fifteen%20minutes%20of%20fame&f=false 978-1-4406-2927-3 In the next chapter, we'll meet twenty-five hopefuls who have already begun to experience their fifteen minutes of fame as a result of exposure on YouTube. en Kip Harding; Mona Lisa Harding The Brainy Bunch: The Harding Family's Method to College Ready by Age Twelve 2014 Simon and Schuster https://books.google.com/books?id=oQcGAgAAQBAJ&pg=PA188&dq=%22fifteen+minutes+of+fame%22&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=%22fifteen%20minutes%20of%20fame%22&f=false 978-1-4767-5936-4 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. en http://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2016/jan/31/the-flip-side-of-instant-fame The flip side of instant fame 2016-01-31 Anna Williamson w:The Guardian After just a month on television, this ordinary chap from Catford, south London, was an overnight superstar, ready to milk his 15 minutes of fame. https://web.archive.org/web/20160323052910/https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2016/jan/31/the-flip-side-of-instant-fame en Jennifer Schuessler An Heir, a $25 Million Giveaway and 30,000 Unopened Letters w:The New York Times 2022-04-27 https://www.nytimes.com/2022/04/27/arts/dear-mr-brody-letters-columbia.html 0362-4331 One day in early January 1970, Michael James Brody Jr. stepped off a Pan Am jet at John F. Kennedy Airport and into what would be one of the new decade’s shortest, strangest 15 minutes of fame. https://web.archive.org/web/20220430070027/http://nytimes.com/2022/04/27/arts/dear-mr-brody-letters-columbia.html Derived terms en 15 minutes,fifteen minutes<qq:by ellipsis> 15 megabytes of fame 15 minutes of shame Translations fifteen minutes of fame Afrikaans: af vyftien minute van roem Albanian: sq pesëmbëdhjetë minuta famë Belarusian: be пятнаццаць хвілін славы Bulgarian: bg Chinese: Mandarin: cmn 短暫出名, cmn 大出風頭 dà chū fēngtou Esperanto: eo dek kvin minutoj da gloro Finnish: fi viisitoista minuuttia kuuluisuutta French: fr heure de gloire f, fr quart d'heure de gloire m German: de fünfzehn Minuten Ruhm Greek: el δεκαπέντε λεπτά δημοσιότητας Hebrew: he חמש עשרה דקות של תהילה khamesh esre dakot shel tehila Hungarian: hu tizenöt perc hírnév Marathi: mr पंधरा मिनिटे प्रसिद्धी Norwegian: no femten minutters berømmelse Polish: pl pięć minut n Portuguese: pt quinze minutos de fama m-p Romanian: ro cincisprezece minute de faimă Russian: ru пятна́дцать мину́т сла́вы Spanish: es quince minutos de fama m-p, es cinco minutos de fama m-p Swedish: sv femton minuter i rampljuset p, sv femton minuter av berömmelse c Turkish: tr sabunköpüğü See also en legend in one's own lunchtime en nine-day wonder en one-hit wonder en Fifteen