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make the sparks fly
Idioms and Phrases
Start a fight or argument, as in If Mary finds out he went to the races without her, that will make the sparks fly . In this idiom, the small particles of a fire called sparks are transferred to an inflammatory situation. [Early 1900s]Example Sentences
Keene is a master of the grand gesture and can make the sparks fly even in a piece as reflective as Britten's War Requiem.
When the ladies or the gentlemen lifted me to pass their hands over my snowy back to make the sparks fly from my hair, the old woman remarked with pride, "You can hold her without having any fear for your dress; she is admirably well-bred!"
In time they would make the sparks fly and would be in their turn assailed as mere blacksmiths by the next line of younger apprentices.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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