howling success

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.

Common Names:

Name	Pronounced	Usage
Dimitrij	-	Slovene, Macedonian
Myrrine	-	Ancient Greek
Chantel	shawn-TEL, shan-TEL	English
Altantsetseg	-	Mongolian
Clarisa	klah-REE-sah	Spanish
Erhard	ER-hahrt (German)	German, Ancient Germanic