15 minutes of fame

English

Alternative forms

• fifteen minutes of fame

Etymology

1968, Andy Warhol, in a catalogue of an exhibition of his art in Stockholm

In the future everyone will be world-famous for 15 minutes.

Noun

15 minutes of fame pl (plural only)

1. (idiomatic) A very short time in the spotlight or brief flurry with fame, after which the person or subject involved is quickly forgotten.
   • 2014, Kit Harding, Mona Lisa Harding, The Brainy Bunch: The Harding Family's Method to College Ready by Age Twelve, Simon & Schuster, →ISBN, chapter 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.

   The barbershop quartet Homer put together had its 15 minutes of fame before fans simply lost interest.

Synonyms

• 15 minutes
• moment in the sun

Derived terms

• 15 megabytes of fame
• 15 minutes of shame

Related terms

• famous for fifteen minutes

Translations

fifteen minutes of fame

• Afrikaans: vyftien minute van roem
• Albanian: pesëmbëdhjetë minuta famë
• Belarusian: пятнаццаць хвілін славы (piatnaccać chvilin słavy)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 短暫出名, 短暂出名 (duǎnzàn chūmíng), 大出風頭, 大出风头 (dà chū fēngtou)

• Finnish: viisitoista minuuttia kuuluisuutta
• French: quart d'heure de gloire m
• German: fünfzehn Minuten Ruhm
• Greek: δεκαπέντε λεπτά δημοσιότητας (dekapénte leptá dimosiótitas)
• Hebrew: חמש עשרה דקות של תהילה‎‎ (khamesh esre dakot shel tehila)

• Hungarian: tizenöt perc hírnév
• Norwegian: femten minutters berømmelse
• Polish: piętnaście minut sławy, swoje pięć minut
• Portuguese: quinze minutos de fama m pl
• Romanian: cincisprezece minute de faimă
• Russian: пятна́дцать мину́т сла́вы (pjatnádcatʹ minút slávy)
• Spanish: quince minutos de fama
• Swedish: femton minuter i rampljuset, femton minuter av berömmelse
• Turkish: sabunköpüğü

See also

• legend in one's own lunchtime