spread like wildfire
English
Verb
- (intransitive, simile) To spread or disseminate rapidly or uncontrollably.
- The virus spread like wildfire throughout the Internet.
- 1789, The Gentleman's Magazine, p651
- The propaganda of the rebels spread like wildfire, and the hopes of the more daring Irish Catholics rose high.
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spread like wildfire
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