mavisol (mavisol) wrote in linguaphiles,
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"the exhibition scored XXX visitors"

Is it OK to say that "the exhibition scored XXX visitors" (meaning wow, that was a success!), instead of just "the exhibition was attend by XXX visitors"? Thanks!
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