All these things can spread like wildfire because borders don't mean much.
Such chatter has spread like wildfire, but insiders have denied that the phone has hit the skids.
“It spread like wildfire, ” Laurence Leamer, author of Madness Under the Royal Palms, told me, singling out one of his early callers, a business titan who had lost $50 million overnight.
He realized that his terrible secret had spread like wildfire.
The news of an ancient tomb discovery had spread like wildfire before the news reporters came to the village.
Early next morning the news spread like wildfire. Mrs. Thompson, Old Man Fellows' housekeeper, had found him deader than a doomail. When she went upstairs to see what had kept him so long before breakfast.
A few bad words or a couple of "horror stories" will spread like wildfire.
Funny how you can send’ jokes' through e-mail and they spread like wildfire but when you start sending messages regarding the Lord, people think twice about sharing.
The images spread like wildfire across the Web.
The rumour, put out by Elagabalus' supporters, that he was in fact the son of Caracalla spread like wildfire. Mass defections quickly began to enlarge the challenger's army.
The news of the victory of the Chinese team spread like wildfire and spread all over the streets.
The news of the assassination of President Lincoln spread like wildfire.
It says contagious diseases such as measles can spread like wildfire in the overcrowded, squalid resettlement camps.
The infection spread like wildfire.
spread like wildfire
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