Today’s “Phrase of the Day” is “here today, gone tomorrow“ and it is a phrase meaning “used to say that someone/something popular now is temporary and it will soon be forgotten; temporary, impermanent, fleeting, brief, transient, short-lived, short, temporal, momentary, changeable”.
Example Sentence: ‘Emergence’ implies that being trans is a trend, here today, gone tomorrow. Existence is not an abstract debate. Human beings can enjoy their rights only if their identity is affirmed as ‘real’ in law, not ‘lifestyle’. To say that trans persons are free to dress as they wish as long as their trans-identity is denied in law is no different from saying people are free to be gay in private, but must not ‘flaunt their lifestyle’…
This phrase is present in Being ‘trans’ is being human and click here to read it.
Courtesy: The Hindu
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