spring up like mushrooms

To increase in number suddenly and rapidly (as mushrooms often do). Even though I'm constantly tending to my garden, the weeds just spring up like mushrooms nonetheless. I thought I only had a transmission problem, but other issues with the car are now springing up like mushrooms.

See also: like, mushroom, spring, up

See also:

destroying angel
magic mushrooms
sacred mushrooms
psychedelic mushrooms
(as) busy as popcorn on a skillet
(as) busy as a cat on a hot tin roof
(as) busy as a one-armed paperhanger (with an itch)
adrenaline
junkie
junky

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