The phrase
"runaway hit" means a very successful and popular thing, like a movie, song, or product, that becomes extremely popular and widespread.
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Sentences with «runaway hit»
- There are some standards or units of instruction that, for whatever reason, you know aren't going to be runaway hits with students. (edutopia.org)
- Everyone expects blog entries about the Common Core to be popular, and a list of the Top Education Tweeters is bound to get a lot of clicks, but the unexpected runaway hit of 2015 for the Education Next blog was a post that Leslie Kan of Bellwether Education Partners wrote explaining why teachers in some states do not receive Social Security benefits. (educationnext.org)
- All were filmed, edited with a bit of style, and set to music; all became runaway hits on YouTube and had the media beating a path to Block's door. (automobilemag.com)
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