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Phrase(s): one-night stand
1. Lit. a performance lasting only one night. • The band did a series of one-night stands down the East Coast. • You can’t make a living doing one-night stands. 2. Fig. a romance or sexual relationship that lasts only one night. • It was not a romance, just a one-night stand. • It looked like something that would last longer than a one-night stand.
McGrawhill's American Idioms And Phrasal Verbs