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Madhulk Posted 17 years ago
Vocabulary

One-hit-wonder waiting to happen

I totally undestand why you won over me but beneath that bad
attitude and discount fashions (cheap clothes?) you’re just a one-hit-wonder waiting to happen (A nobody waiting to realize themself?) Jude. Everybody knows it, but you.
  

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A "one-hit wonder" is a person or group who records a single extremely popular song and then is never heard from again. Years later, if you name the group, people will say "Huh? " but if you hum the song, everybody knows it.

— Delmobile

  • A "one-hit wonder" is a person or group who records a single extremely popular song and then is never heard from again.
  • Years later, if you name the group, people will say "Huh?
  • " but if you hum the song, everybody knows it.
  • So, "nobody" is a pretty good equivalent.
  • "Waiting to happen" is a way to say something is inevitable.
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A "one-hit wonder" is a person or group who records a single extremely popular song and then is never heard from again. Years later, if you name the group, people will say "Huh? Who?" but if you hum the song, everybody knows it. So, "nobody" is a pretty good equivalent.

"Waiting to happen" is a way to say something is inevitable. "If you keep letting the janitor mop the entry with that
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So here by waiting to happen it's imlied that she will
inevitably only remain a one-hit-wonder?
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Yes, that's how I interpret this.
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Thank you very much, D!
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