gangbusters

gangbusters

Successful. Oh, presenting the case to the students was gangbusters—they got totally engrossed in trying to the solve the mystery.
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Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

gangbusters

(ˈgæŋbəstɚz)
n. a wild, busy, and successful event. (see also like gangbusters.) Our party was truly gangbusters, for sure.
See also: gangbuster
McGraw-Hill's Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions
See also:
  • like gangbusters
  • go gangbusters
  • come on like gangbusters
  • like gangbusters, come on/going
  • lost in thought
  • absorbed in thought
  • be sunk in (something)
  • be sunk in something
  • sunk
  • be going gangbusters
References in periodicals archive
Rather, as directed by Roar Uthaug, The Wave adds credible writing and effective acting to gangbusters special effects, resulting in a white-knuckle experience a bit higher on the plausibility scale than what we're used to from Hollywood versions of the genre.
It's going up like gangbusters, hasn't slowed down.
Though it sells gangbusters in liquor store aisles across the continent, it has yet to make it big on American shores.
"Employment growth is decent but not gangbusters," said Nariman Behravesh, chief economist at IHS Inc.
With more than 18 million current undergraduates--who pay average annual tuition of $32,000 each--the market for higher education seems to be going gangbusters.
SCOTS gangbusters have seized more than PS170,000 from a Lebanese crook embroiled in a series of international frauds.
Japan production will also go gangbusters in overseas markets targeting teens and genre fans.
Apparently, sales are goin' like gangbusters, and even men who don't frequent Mavericks are stopping by for a quick drink and a bottle of Alibi.
The automotive industry has been going gangbusters in the last few months." He added: "What we're seeing is the private sector demonstrating very clearly that it can, even in very difficult times, take up the slack of jobs lost in the public sector."
While SPB may not be going gangbusters, Avaya says components of VENA -- such as switch clustering, "enhanced" Shortest Path Bridging,wirelessnetworking, network access control, and network management- are being picked up by customers.
Inaugurating a design language in any industry has its risks, not least being that the new look goes over gangbusters in one market but tanks in another.
* The Gilad Shalit shirt is selling like gangbusters in Gaza.
"Rick Perry is coming on like gangbusters, and that has forced all the other presidential contenders to step up-or at least recalibrate-their march toward the White House.
"Now we know they are there and they are growing like gangbusters."
GANGBUSTERS have seized another loaded gun after a police raid in Birmingham.