wildfire (redirected from spreads like 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

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like wildfire

everywhere very quickly. The new dance has caught on like wildfire in all the popular clubs. Scandal spreads like wildfire around this office.

Etymology: based on the literal meaning of wildfire (= a fire that burns out of control)

See also: like