spread like wildfire
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spread like wildfire (third-person singular simple present spreads like wildfire, present participle spreading like wildfire, simple past and past participle spread like wildfire)
- (intransitive, simile) To spread or disseminate rapidly or uncontrollably.
- The virus spread like wildfire throughout the Internet.
- 1789, The Gentleman's Magazine, page 651:
- The propaganda of the rebels spread like wild-fire, and the hopes of the more daring Irish Catholics rose high.
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spread or disseminate rapidly or uncontrollably
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