one-night stand | Idiomator

Meaning: Anoccasionwhen aperformeror team of them (especially invaudeville) expects to perform at atheaterfor a singleevening.1916March 25,Irvin S. Cobb, “"Unaccustomed as I am—"”, inSaturday Evening Post‎[1]:Again, when the affair is over, I catch a glimpse of myself running to catch a train for our nextone-night stand.1948,Barré Lyndon,Jonathan Latimer(screenplay),Night Has a Thousand Eyes(motion picture), spoken by John Triton (Edward G. Robinson):It wasn't until the third or fourth or fifth drops that I became aware of this rain that was to engulf my life. I remember the date, August 3, 1928. We were playing aone-night standin a small town in Louisiana, Glenberry.; (idiomatic)A singlesexualencounterbetween two individuals, where at least one of the partners has no immediateintentionorexpectationof establishing a longer-termsexual orromanticrelationship.Hypernym:hookupCoordinate terms:half-night stand,one-minute standNear-synonyms:hit and run;pump and dump;wham, bam, thank you ma'am; (idiomatic)Either of the two partners involved in such a singlesexualencounter.2004, Paul G. Nation,The Jacksonville Four: Living Where Money Grows on Trees, AuthorHouse, published2004,→ISBN,page20:Chet's mom was never home. She always went out gambling, partying and staying overnight with one of her sugar daddies. Chet never met his father. He was just aone-night standshe'd had eighteen years ago.2009, HoneyB,Single Husbands, Grand Central Publishing,→ISBN,unnumbered page:She was aone-night standhe'd met at the gym, and Herschel couldn't remember her name.2011, Jane Graves,Black Ties and Lullabies‎[2], Forever, published2011,→ISBN:“So she was just aone-night standlike all the rest?”

Examples:

EN: But she played a one-night stand on me and beat it down here... while I was following a chump steer... all the way up to Memphis and back for the last month.
ES: Pero se quedó una sola noche y se vino aquí mientras yo como un tonto estuve un mes para ir hasta Memphis y volver.
EN: She was part of a troupe playing in a one-night stand company. I took her out.
ES: Ella formaba parte de un grupo de cabareteras.
EN: So you'll do me the favor of not callin' it a one-night stand.
ES: Entonces hágame el favor de no considerarlo una aventura.
EN: We were playing a one-night stand in a small town in Louisiana. Glenberry.
ES: Hacíamos un espectáculo de una noche en una pequeña ciudad de Luisiana Lynbury.
EN: You can find a one-night stand in every port of call!
ES: ¡Puedes encontrar rollo de una noche en todos los puertos!
EN: It was crazy, a one-night stand.
ES: Fue una locura, una sola noche.
EN: she would be a one-night stand. But then I danced with her. And I realized there was something more.
ES: Pero al bailar con ella me di cuenta de que era una mujer diferente.
EN: I'm not a one-night stand.
ES: No soy una chica de una noche.
EN: So we're picking up 8,000 for a one-night stand in this town.
ES: Sacaremos 8000 por un concierto en la ciudad.
EN: You must like to travel, to come so far for a one-night stand.
ES: Le ha de gustar viajar, para ir tan lejos para una noche.
EN: Always guys on the run, always the one-night stand
ES: Siempre tipos con prisa, amores de una hora
EN: Do you realize we were hardly more than a one-night stand?
ES: ¿Te das cuenta... de que apenas si fuimos más que un romance de una noche?
EN: Yes. A one-night stand.
ES: Sí, de una noche.
EN: Rather a lot for a one-night stand.
ES: Es un buen pago por una sola noche.
EN: Then that's just a one-night stand.
ES: Entonces es sólo una cosa pasajera.

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