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spread like wildfire
Idioms and Phrases
Disseminate or circulate very quickly, as in The rumor about their divorce spread like wildfire . The noun wildfire means “a raging, rapidly spreading conflagration.†[c. 1800]Example Sentences
Conspiracy theories, especially about vaccines, spread like wildfire.
She said: "They’ve spread like wildfire really because opioids aren’t getting into Europe anymore, so people are making their own which is where the synthetics come in."
Grassroots organizers have post old-fashioned fliers across cities in the U.S. or online, which then spread like wildfire, especially on X and TikTok.
The love for it spread like wildfire as professional chefs and home cooks alike rushed to develop their own versions.
Water from a polluted river in Ghana was so thick and discoloured that an artist was able to use it as paint to depict the environmental devastation caused by the illegal gold mining that has spread like wildfire in the resource-rich West African state.
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