单词 | succès fou |
释义 | > as lemmassuccès fou Used in phrases with reference to types of artistic success or acclaim, as succès de scandale /də skɑ̃dal/, success due to notoriety or scandalous character; succès d'estime /dɛstim/, a critical rather than a popular or commercial success; succès fou /fu/, a success marked by wild enthusiasm. Also transferred and figurative. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > prosperity > success > [noun] > one who or that which is successful > that which is successful > great or sensational trophy?a1450 triumph1735 succès fou1859 sensation1860 home run1913 whizz-bang1916 wow1920 smash1923 smash hit1923 wham1923 smasheroo1948 1826 New Monthly Mag. 17 578 Merely that lukewarm approbation, which in Paris is termed un succès d'estime.] 1859 Once a Week 13 Aug. 136/1 My second attempt..will be something more substantial than a mere succès d'estime. 1878 J. C. Morison Gibbon vi. 86 The book was..a succès fou. 1887 R. Churchill Let. 2 Mar. in W. S. Churchill Lord Randolph Churchill (1906) II. xvii. 291 I think the Government are earning a rather second-rate kind of succès d'estime. 1896 G. B. Shaw in Sat. Rev. 8 Feb. 148/1 Mr Cartwright..enjoyed..a sort of succès de scandale. 1908 Mrs. H. Ward Diana Mallory iii. xvi. 331 She would find herself a succès fou—people tumbling over each other to invite her, and make a show of her. 1919 ‘C. Dane’ Legend 56 The first two books were a succès d'estime. 1928 Observer 1 Jan. 8 The success which Victor Margueritte's novel ‘La Garçonne’ made all over Europe..was chiefly a succès de scandale. 1928 Observer 22 Jan. 11/3 Her rhapsodical novel ‘Glenarvon’, which had a success of scandal for a time for the sake of the portraits of Lamb, Byron, Lady Holland, and many others.] 1948 W. Fortescue Beauty for Ashes xix. 142 It was hard work creating something from nothing, but very great fun, and had the usual succès fou of all dramatic performances coached by the founder. 1965 A. J. Ayer in Listener 4 Nov. 700/2 The result was Language, Truth and Logic... Though it had an almost immediate succès de scandale, its tenets..had a respectable philosophical ancestry. 1977 Daily Tel. 17 Mar. 14/3 It has already won a succès d'estime in the United States, and seems likely also to become a cult work here. 1978 Christian 5 86 What caught on with a succès fou and drew in the spiritual élite of the generation in tens of thousands was a Benedictine reform movement. 1979 M. Hiley Victorian Working Women i. iv. 48 The Pictorial World..was obviously hoping for some succès de scandale by splashing women in trousers across its front page. < as lemmas |
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