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howling success
Idioms and Phrases
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.Example Sentences
It’s called the Playgroup Program, and humane society staff says it’s been a howling success since it was first brought to the facility in 2017 as part of the national initiative “Dogs Playing for Life.”
The song is a howling success, a praise annihilation.
His creations were coveted or, to put it in Bill-speak, “a howling success.”
Just stirring the shreds together with sugar failed, but a quick simmer in sugar syrup was a howling success.
“The experiment, therefore, was far from a howling success,” Effrat wrote, adding, “At this stage it seems safe to predict that the optional plan will be permitted to die a natural death.”
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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