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succès fou

succès fou noun: a tremendous success.

Noun

succès fou (plural succès fous)

  1. A tremendous success.
    • This coyness produced the desired effect: the exhibit at the Fine Arts Society Gallery on Bond Street proved "a howling success” and “a mob scene.” “It was a succès fou, recalled Arthur Houghton much later. A succès fou is right,” added Gates.2001, Davis Dyer, Daniel Gross, The Generations of Corning: The Life and Times of a Global Corporation, →ISBN
    • I'm glad to report that the masses are still attending my orations at 12 on Mondays and I'm even given to understand, through some of my more faithful former pupils, that I am having what ladies in Henry James call a succès fou.2013, Andrew Burrows, David Johnston, Reinhard Zimmermann, Judge and Jurist: Essays in Memory of Lord Rodger of Earlsferry, →ISBN

Forms of succès fou

pluralsuccès fous

Origin of succès fou

Borrowed from French succès fou (literally “mad success”).

Questions about succès fou

What does succès fou mean?
Succès fou means a tremendous success.
What part of speech is succès fou?
Succès fou is a noun.
What is the plural of succès fou?
The plural of succès fou is succès fous.

Words near succès fou in the dictionary

  1. succussion
  2. succussions
  3. succussive
  4. succès d'estime
  5. succès de scandale
  6. succès fou
  7. succès fous
  8. Suceava
  9. Sucellus
  10. Sucevița
  11. such

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