Borrowed fromFrenchsuccèsfou(literally“mad success”).
succès fou (pluralsuccès fous)
- Atremendoussuccess.
2001, Davis Dyer, Daniel Gross,The Generations of Corning: The Life and Times of a Global Corporation,→ISBN: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 asuccès fou, recalled Arthur Houghton much later. Asuccès fou is right,” added Gates.
2013, Andrew Burrows, David Johnston, Reinhard Zimmermann,Judge and Jurist: Essays in Memory of Lord Rodger of Earlsferry,→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 asuccès fou.
2014, May Sarton,Mrs. Stevens Hears the Mermaids Singing: A Novel,→ISBN:“I am caged! I don't fit in, and I never will. You are so right. It's not being American—it's being myself. I'm a writer, Adrian!” “Well, what if you are? You're asuccès fou.”
2014, Sally Beauman,Sextet: Lovers and Liars Trilogy,→ISBN:For the past year,Natasha Lawrence had been playing the title role in Estella, a musical by a celebrated English composer which had been asuccès fou in London,and was now asuccès fou in New York.
