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spread like wildfire

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spread like wildfire
if disease or news spreads like wildfire, it quickly affects or becomes known by more and more people. Once one child in the school has become infected, the disease spreads like wildfire. Scandal spreads like wildfire round here.
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The news had spread like wildfire through the town.
The Black Tulip by Dumas, Alexandre View in context
Long before sunrise the news of this calamity spread like wildfire through the different encampments.
The Adventures of Captain Bonneville, U.S.A., in the Rocky Mountains and the far West by Irving, Washington View in context
The news that Robin Hood had come back again to dwell in Sherwood as of old spread like wildfire all over the countryside, so that ere a se'ennight had passed nearly all of his old yeomen had gathered about him again.
The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood by Pyle, Howard View in context
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