on fire

English

Pronunciation

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Prepositional phrase

on fire

1. Being burned by fire.

   If the wind picks up and the flames spread, the whole town could go on fire.

2. (idiomatic) Achieving good results at a rapid rate.

   That striker has scored four goals so far - he's on fire!

3. (idiomatic) Sexually aroused.

Synonyms

• (being burned by fire): afire, aflame, alight, burning, flaming, going up in smoke, in flames
• (rapidly achieving good results): on a roll, on a tear

Derived terms

• get on like a house on fire

Translations

being burned by fire

• Finnish: tulessa
• French: en feu
• Galician: ó lume, ao lume
• Georgian: იწვის (ic̣vis)
• German: in Brand, in Flammen (both construed with the verb stehen)
• Gothic: 𐍆𐌿𐌽𐌹𐍃𐌺𐍃 (funisks)
• Irish: le thine
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• Italian: in fiamme
• Latin: ardens, flagrans, igneus (la)
• Polish: płonąć (pl) (literally to burn)
• Portuguese: pegando fogo
• Spanish: en fuego, en llamas
• Swedish: i brand, brinnande (sv)
• Welsh: ar dân

rapidly achieving good results

• Azerbaijani: qan eləmək
• Finnish: vauhdissa
• German: einen Lauf haben (de) (verb)
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• Polish: na fali (pl)
• Russian: в уда́ре (ru) (v udáre)
• Spanish: en fuego, en racha, a tope

Anagrams

• forein, infero-