Hadn't encountered this idiom before; apparently it means about the same thing as \"go over well.\" (And not at all the same thing as \"go down the storm drain.\")<\/p>\n
I first saw it in the Telegraph<\/cite>: \"Vladimir Putin's Poland war speech will go down a storm in Russia<\/a>.\" A blog called \"Experimental Linguistics\" posted some cites<\/a> back in 2004.<\/p>\n I'm guessing it's common in the UK.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Hadn’t encountered this idiom before; apparently it means about the same thing as “go over well.” (And not at all the same thing as “go down the storm drain.”) I…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[48,58],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12352","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-idioms","category-new-to-me-words"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12352","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12352"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12352\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12352"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12352"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12352"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}