spread like wildfire 的定义
- Disseminate or circulate very quickly, as in The rumor about their divorce spread like wildfire. The noun wildfire means “a raging, rapidly spreading conflagration.” [c. 1800]
spread like wildfire 近义词
等同于 overrun
更多spread like wildfire例句
- Before anti-vaxxers, there were anti-fluoriders: a group who spread fear about the anti-tooth decay agent added to drinking water.
- Their immediate response tells an important truth about a police slowdown that has spread throughout New York City in recent days.
- Sprawled on chaise lounges with their knees high in the air and their legs spread wide.
- Groups like the Crips and MS-13 have spread from coast to coast, and even abroad.
- So I just patted him kind-like on the shoulder and sat down.
- May looked along at the dimpled grace, And then at the saint-like, fair old face, “How funny!”
- But hitherto, before these new ideas began to spread in our community, the mass of men and women definitely settled down.
- His strong legs and his broad, spade-like feet helped to make him a fine swimmer.
- The rapid spread of the revolt was not a whit less marvelous than its lack of method or cohesion.
- The wave-like movement of these animals is particularly graceful and cleverly done.