In the US, however, it was a substantial hit, the first of many from 1981's multi-platinum Escape album.
Still, if all that $1.4 billion ended up as a loss, it would be a substantial hit for the bank.
But what do you expect of a land where a recent Wilfried best-of album - titled Papa Was a Yodelling Stone - was a substantial hit?
"Fuel is a substantial hit, and we do need to cover the cost of fuel in our ticket prices in the long run," said Edward Bastian, Delta's president and chief financial officer.
Reinvented as "The Matchmaker," a vehicle for Ruth Gordon, it was a substantial hit, first at the Edinburgh Festival, then in London, and, finally, in New York, where it ran for more than a year, though that was nothing compared to the overwhelming success of the musical based on it — "Hello, Dolly!" There were no more financial pressures after that.
Raising this tax rate by 10 percentage points would be a substantial hit to tens of millions of families who are certainly middle class by anyone's definition.
Arizona expects a $1 billion budget shortfall next year, and schools are bracing for a substantial hit to their budgets, although no one knows for sure yet how much assistance they will lose.
The Irish Repertory Theatre recently triumphed with a pitch perfect revival of Conor McPherson's The Weir that deserved to transfer to Broadway and become a substantial hit; it was that good.
One such rare lady is Flora Robson, now starring in London as Tina in Sir Michael Redgrave's recent dramatization of "The Aspern Papers," a substantial hit and, I am told by a man who has seen them all, the finest presentation of a James work ever brought to the stage.
I think in that sense Ford has a substantial hit".
