spread like wildfire

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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, page 651:

     The propaganda of the rebels spread like wild-fire, and the hopes of the more daring Irish Catholics rose high.

Translations

spread like wildfire

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

  Mandarin: 不胫而走 (zh) (bùjìng'érzǒu), 不脛而走／不胫而走 (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
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• 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 (sv) c
• Vietnamese: please add this translation if you can