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• Last Big Thing

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last big thing (複数形 last big things)

1. A recent fad or trend that has lost its popularity.
   • 2003, Time - Volume 162, page v:

     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 (または, for that matter, cold yoga)— and I'm paid to keep up with this stuff.

   • 2005, Eric Dolin, The Ph. D Survival Guide, ISBN 0595350305, page 19:

     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.

   • 2009, Alec Sharp & ‎Patrick McDermott, Workflow Modeling: Tools for Process Improvement and Applications Development, ISBN 1596931930, page 4:

     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.

   • 2011, Stephen Fried, Thing of Beauty, ISBN 1451676409, page 102:

     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.

2. Used other than as an idiom: see last,‎ big,‎ thing.