Hit
Hit noun - A person or thing that is successful.
Runaway success and hit are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Runaway success" instead a noun "Hit".
Nearby Word: hitting
Runaway success
Hit and runaway success are semantically related. You can use "Hit" instead a noun phrase "Runaway success".
Both terms in one sentence
- Everyone knew that Furious 7 was going to be a huge hit, but nobody could have predicted the runaway success of its lead single "See You Again" by Wiz Khalifa.
Source: Sleeper Hit -
While the first Holmes story was A Study in Scarlet, the character and his world didn't hit the big time until A Scandal in Bohemia proved to be a runaway success.
Source: My Greatest Failure - It works - the film is a hit, and the "actress" is a runaway success, so Taransky markets her as a real person - giving webcam and phone interviews, "casting" her in his later films, and even performing a music concert as her, but things start to get out of hand.
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