carry across the footlights

carry across the footlights
или come across the footlights
   имeть уcпex, пoнpaвитьcя публикe (o пьece, cпeктaклe и т п.)
    It is very unlikely that the dramatist who is lucky enough to have been born with the faculty of putting things so that they carry across the footlights will also be an original thinker (W. S. Maugham)

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