Claim-to-fame Definition

noun
(idiomatic) That for which one has bragging rights; one's reason for being well-known or famous.
It seems to me that "grass seed capital of the world" is a fairly shaky claim to fame.
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Noun

Singular:
claim-to-fame
Plural:
claims-to-fame

Claim-to-fame Sentence Examples

  • Desargues has a special claim to fame on account of his beautiful theorem on the involution of a quadrangle inscribed in a conic. Pascal discovered a striking property of a hexagon inscribed in a conic (the hexagrammum mysticum); from this theorem Pascal is said to have deduced over 400 corollaries, including most of the results obtained by earlier geometers.

  • Perhaps his best claim to fame was as the writer of the soul classic Go Now in 1964.

  • Adventures of agreat persuader THERE are not many people whose claim to fame is helping a well-know transsexual get to the sex change clinic.

  • We tied Doylestown—my one athletic claim to fame.

  • We tied Doylestown—my one athletic claim to fame.

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