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spread like wildfire

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spread like wildfire
Fig. [for something] to spread rapidly. Rumors spread like wildfire when people are excited. This disease will spread like wildfire when it gets going.
See also: like, spread, wildfire
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.
See also: like, spread, wildfire
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The news had spread like wildfire through the town.
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Long before sunrise the news of this calamity spread like wildfire through the different encampments.
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