Etymology

succès fou

Today it means: A tremendous success. Full definition →

French succès fou
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  1. French · borrowed fromsuccès fou
  2. English todaysuccès fou

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

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.