last big thing
Word Rarity
Common
Frequency: Zipf frequency 5.26 in modern English
19
Scrabble Score
12
Letters
1
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A recent fad or trend that has lost its popularity.
noun
Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see last, big, thing.
noun
Alternative form of last big thing.
Example Sentences
- "My nightstand, desktop, TiVo menu and mental to-do list are still full of last big things I never got around to— The Hulk, Friendster, hot yoga (or, for that matter, cold yoga)— and I'm paid to keep up with this stuff."
- "My colleagues and I are searching for the next big thing in the field. The last big thing came about 15 years ago and we're currently in a “been there, done that” mode."
- "We always, it seems, are provided with a glut of material on the next big thing and not enough on how to make the last big thing actually work."
- "And, besides, appearances to the contrary, the fashion business was not really in the habit of changing bandwagons when the cutting-edgers started looking for the next big thing. They were usually still responding to the last big thing."
- "Now, nobody knows what IT is exactly, but as dot-com companies, purveyors of the Last Big Thing, bite the dust, we're ready to grasp at anything — even if we don't know what it is."
- "You might call Web services the Last Big Thing. The surprise is that today, in the midst of an IT downturn that has become a way of life, Web services really is changing everything."
Etymology
Back-formation from next big thing.