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
Sebastjan	-	Slovene
Dederick	-	English (Archaic)
Lalla	-	Literature
Hubertus	huy-BER-təs (Dutch)	Dutch, German, Ancient Germanic (Latinized)
Ademaro	-	Italian
AndraŽ	-	Slovene