howling success

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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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How to use howling success in a sentence

As a means of preventing tooth decay in those cities that do fluoridate, the practice certainly looks like a success.
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Their three-day scientific outing was paid for by Epstein and was big success.
Sleazy Billionaire’s Double Life Featured Beach Parties With Stephen Hawking|M.L. Nestel|January 8, 2015|DAILY BEAST
“I think it is important to say it is too soon to judge success or failure,” said Col. Steven Warren, a Pentagon spokesman.
Pentagon Doesn’t Know How Many People It’s Killed in the ISIS War|Nancy A. Youssef|January 7, 2015|DAILY BEAST
A place that has multiplied success for generation after generation of its children.
Mario Cuomo, Always Moving Us Toward the Light|Mike Barnicle|January 4, 2015|DAILY BEAST

The grim instability of shelter life is hardly a recipe for success under the best of circumstances.
His First Day Out Of Jail After 40 Years: Adjusting To Life Outside|Justin Rohrlich|January 3, 2015|DAILY BEAST
This was my sincere endeavor, in those many discourses I had with that monarch, although it unfortunately failed of success.
Gulliver's Travels|Jonathan Swift
He will tell you about the success he had in America; it quite makes up for the defeat of the British army in the Revolution.
Confidence|Henry James
But there is a pinnacle of human success and of human opinion, on which human foot was never yet permitted to rest.
The Pastor's Fire-side Vol. 3 of 4|Jane Porter
Great preparations had been made, and the success must have been perfect to win so general and hearty a commendation.
Glances at Europe|Horace Greeley
In Paris, Joachim soon found that the royal road to success lay in denouncing loudly all superior officers of lack of patriotism.
Napoleon's Marshals|R. P. Dunn-Pattison