C1idiomsuccessIELTS-friendly
a runaway success
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something that becomes very successful quickly, far beyond what people expected
Used for products, films, books and events. 'Runaway' also appears in 'runaway inflation' with a negative sense, so keep it with 'success'.
In context
The little night market was a runaway success from the first weekend.
Her cookbook became a runaway success, selling two hundred thousand copies in a year.
More idioms about success
- a blessing in disguisesomething that seems bad at first but later brings a good result
- a close calla situation in which you only just avoid danger or failure
- a dream come truesomething you have wanted for a long time that has finally happened
- a feather in your capan achievement that you can be proud of and that may help you later
- a flash in the pana sudden success that does not last or happen again