howling success

Idioms  

1. A tremendous triumph, as in Their first play was a howling success. This colloquial expression employs howling in the sense of “very pronounced” or “glaring,” a usage dating from the mid-1800s.

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howling success

One month later Danny Kaye became a howling success.

From Time Magazine Archive

Playing a predatory Southern belle, Miss Holm makes a howling success of her movie debut.

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To help Ball with State's paper work, Kennedy named George McGhee, an able administrator who had been less than a howling success as State's Counselor and Policy.

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After seven weeks of howling success on the air, radio's newest star is disgusted.

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The thing was, though, there was almost nothing in the twenty-seven volumes about the Dresden raid, even though it had been such a howling success.

From "Slaughterhouse-Five" by Kurt Vonnegut