曇花一現
simp昙花一现taam4 faa1 jat1 jin6tán huā yī xiàn
English
- lit. the night-blooming cactus shows once
- flash in the pan (idiom)
- short-lived
- to last briefly as the flower of the broad-leaved epiphyllum
粵語 — Cantonese
- 有如無花果嘅花開咗咁難得，比喻人或者事物一出現就好快消失
Sources: cc-cedict, rime-cantonese, words.hk