the bubble bursts



the bubble bursts

a very happy or successful period of time suddenly ends (usually in past tenses) The economy was booming, then the bubble burst with the stockmarket crash of October 1987.
See also: bubble, burst

Common Names:

NameGenderPronouncedUsage
Vance[væns]
Mitrodora-Macedonian
Secundus-Ancient Roman
Trystan-Welsh
Gerda (2)YER-dah (Swedish)Swedish, Norwegian, Danish
ŞIvan-Kurdish