All flash in the pan synonyms

noun flash in the pan

• bugbear — Something or someone that is your bugbear worries or upsets you.
• dud — a device, person, or enterprise that proves to be a failure.
• fad — a temporary fashion, notion, manner of conduct, etc., especially one followed enthusiastically by a group.
• failure — an act or instance of failing or proving unsuccessful; lack of success: His effort ended in failure. The campaign was a failure.
• misfire — (of a rifle or gun or of a bullet or shell) to fail to fire or explode.
• nine days' wonder — an event or thing that arouses considerable but short-lived interest or excitement.