avere successo

Literally, “to have success”.

avére successo (first-person singular present (with syntactic gemination after the verb) hò successo, first-person singular past historic èbbi successo or ébbi successo, past participle avùto successo, first-person singular future avrò successo, first-person singular subjunctive àbbia successo, second-person singular imperative àbbi successo, auxiliary avére) (intransitive)

1. to succeed
2. to be popular