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
Taavet	-	Estonian
Charalampos	-	Greek
Vitalijus	-	Lithuanian
Yasmin	YAZ-min (English)	Persian, Arabic, English (Modern)
Detlef	DET-lef (Low German)	Low German, German
Rokurou	ṙo-koo-ṙo:	Japanese