smash hit
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- noun
- /smæʃ hɪt/
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éxito rotundo
- The movie quickly became a smash hit, breaking box office records.
- smash hit song
- smash hit album
- smash hit movie
And then that shows a smash hit wins all these awards, best entertainment program.
- And then that shows a smash hit wins all these awards, best entertainment program.
- Get Gotti, that I just did is a smash hit around the world.
- We are chatting with the hilarious, honest, rad awesome Lisa and Walter from the smash hit Abbott Elementary.
- My physical album was in an episode of this really, really big smash hit of AK drama called Tokebi, which is Goblin.
Examples
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And now I'd like you to meet the director and the star of the smash hit movie, Blood and Kisses.
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They've got sold-out summer shows, thousands of devoted fans around the world, and tons of smash hit tracks on the charts.
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How did it feel to make a smash hit movie?
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The play's a smash hit.
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In short, it was a smash hit.
Academic text (2008) -
Hope the game is a smash hit.
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Who says you know how to write a smash hit of a novel?
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But Rosemary's Baby was the smash hit of the summer.
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It's my work, and I haven't had a smash hit for a long time.
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After becoming a smash hit in 1993, the first installment of the series got a sequel by 1997.
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Synonyms
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1.3
Something very popular and successful, like a song or show
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2.6
A very popular film or book that earns a lot of money
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4.4
An event that is very successful and impressive
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2.7
Something that many people like or buy, especially in one group
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3.9
A very popular success, often a film or song
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2.8
A product, show or event that is very successful and liked by many people
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3.4
A very popular movie or song many people enjoy
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6.5
A very big success, like a popular film
Antonyms
How Successful
Surface Forms
Morphology
Both constituents contribute directly to the meaning: 'smash' (in the sense of a big success) functions as an intensifier and 'hit' means a successful work, so a learner who knows those senses can compose 'smash hit' as a very successful or extremely popular success. This is a regular compositional pattern (similar to 'big hit') and is cross-linguistically common, making the expression transparent to learners who know the constituent meanings.
Etymology
Smash hit may come from the image of something that hits people so hard it is a smash, like a song that creates loud excitement and sells out shows. That's why smash hit means 'a very successful' song, movie, or book that sells a lot.