not for long
Subject to change
A phrase signaling that a current state will soon change.
It responds to present-tense statements by predicting their reversal: He's winning.
Not for long.
The phrase carries a tone of confident prediction, sometimes threat, sometimes reassurance.
It can stand alone or modify what precedes it: She's happy now, but not for long.
- briefShort in duration
- borrowed timeExtension beyond expected limits
- fleetingPassing very quickly
- momentaryLasting very briefly
- ephemeralLasting very briefly
evanescent · impending · looming · unstable · approaching · passing · impermanent · ticking clock · time is ticking · counting down · temporary · fading · short-lived · on the way out · transient · expiring · vanishing · waning
not for longforever
For all time
permanently · eternally · for good · indefinitely · in perpetuity
not for longpermanently
In an unchanging manner
for good · once and for all · irreversibly · durably · lastingly
not for longhere to stay
Established for good
for good · once and for all · from now on · forevermore · till the end of time
long, not, for, length, longer, lengthy, lengthen, longest, lengths