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!

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
• German: in Brand, in Flammen (both construed with the verb stehen)
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• Irish: le thine
• Latin: ardens, flagrans, igneus (la)
• Spanish: en fuego
• Swedish: i brand, brinnande (sv)
• Welsh: ar dân

rapidly achieving good results

• German: einen Lauf haben (de) (verb)
• Russian: в уда́ре (v udáre)
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• Spanish: en fuego

Anagrams

• forein, infero-