Last Big Thing

See also: last big thing

English

Noun

Last Big Thing (plural Last Big Things)

1. Alternative form of last big thing
   • 2001 April, John R. Quain, “What Is IT?”, in Popular Science, volume 258, number 4, page 74:

     Now, nobody knows what IT is exactly, but as dot-com companies, purveyors of the Last Big Thing, bite the dust, we're ready to grasp at anything — even if we don't know what it is.

   • 2003 September 15, Eric Knorr, “A Bargain So Far”, in CIO, volume 16, number 23, page 118:

     You might call Web services the Last Big Thing. The surprise is that today, in the midst of an IT downturn that has become a way of life, Web services really is changing everything.

   • 2007, 2033: Future of Misbehavior, →ISBN, page 12:

     The world of nightlife is arguably one of the most forward-thinking businesses there is; impresarios and denizens alike are moving constantly, like sharks, on the unending quest for the Next Big Thing, and the Next Next Big Thing, and the So Much The Next Big Thing That Only Fifteen People In Glasgow Know About It Thing, leaving the rest of us behind at the Last Big Thing, as redundant and forgotten as rejected bits of forlorn knitwear on the last day of a Barneys warehouse sale.