budding star
Emerging promising performer
A budding star is someone showing early promise of becoming famous or highly successful in their field, especially in entertainment or sports.
The image is of a flower bud about to bloom: She's a budding star in the tennis world.
The phrase suggests potential not yet fully realized but clearly visible.
- next big thingAnticipated future phenomenon
- prodigyGifted youth with rare talent
- newcomerRecent arrival somewhere
- talentInborn aptitude
- discoveryAct of finding something
talent scout · breakthrough · spotlight · screen test · audition · debut · promising · bright future · ingenue · understudy · hopeful · sensation · protégé · dreamer · aspiring · raw talent · Hollywood · agent
- budding ___
- rising starsup-and-comer, newcomer, prospect, emerging artist, phenom
- young talentchild actor, prodigy, wunderkind, phenom, teen idol
budding starfading star
Celebrity past their prime
has-been · yesterday's news · burnout · one-hit wonder · falling star
budding starold hand
Experienced person
legend · elder statesman · institution · veteran · icon
budding starnever-was
One who failed entirely
wannabe · hopeless case · hack · flash in the pan · also-ran
buds, budded, budding, star, stars, starred, starring, starry, stardom