English

Verb
to spread like wildfire

1. context|intransitive|idiom To spread or disseminate rapidly or uncontrollably.

#:The virus spread like wildfire throughout the Internet.

Quotations
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 ...

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Finnish: levitä kuin kulovalkea
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