to spread like wildfire
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(of news, information, or rumors) to quickly become known by the majority
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idiom
informal
Exempel
Once the layoffs were mentioned, the news spread like wildfire through the office.
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(of a disease or infection) to quickly pass from one person to another
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Exempel
Once one child in the school has the infection, it spreads like wildfire.
