spread like wildfire

English

Verb

spread like wildfire

1. (intransitive, simile) To spread or disseminate rapidly or uncontrollably.

   The virus spread like wildfire throughout the Internet.

   • 1789, The Gentleman's Magazine, p651

     The propaganda of the rebels spread like wildfire, and the hopes of the more daring Irish Catholics rose high. “Would that we knew if the hour of our ...

Translations

spread like wildfire

• Arabic: please add this translation if you can
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 不胫而走 (zh), 不脛而走 (zh) (bù jìng ér zǒu)

• Czech: šířit se jako požár impf
• Dutch: als een lopend vuurtje n
• Finnish: levitä kuin kulovalkea
• French: se répandre comme une traînée de poudre
• German: sich wie ein Lauffeuer verbreiten

• Hungarian: futótűzként terjed
• Italian: diffondersi a macchia d'olio
• Japanese: please add this translation if you can
• Portuguese: espalhar-se como um relâmpago, espalhar-se como um rastilho de pólvora
• Russian: распространя́ться как лесно́й пожа́р (rasprostranjátʹsja kak lesnój požár)
• Spanish: correr como la pólvora
• Swedish: sprida (sv) sig som en präriebrand c
• Vietnamese: please add this translation if you can