howling success

be a howling success

To be extremely or triumphantly successful. For having such a limited budget, their play turned out to be a howling success. My business was a howling success in the 1980s and '90s, but the advent of the Internet rendered my services obsolete.
See also: howling, success
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

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.
See also: howling, success
The American Heritage® Dictionary of Idioms by Christine Ammer.
See also:
  • be a howling success
  • howling
  • howling drunk
  • roaring
  • a roaring success
  • be a roaring success
  • howl at
  • howl at (someone or something)
  • crack through (something)
  • howl with
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