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set the world on fire
Idioms and Phrases
Perform an outstanding feat and win fame, as in An ambitious man, he longed to set the world on fire with his inventions . This hyperbolic expression uses set on fire in the sense of “arouse excitement in.” Also see set on fire , def. 2.Example Sentences
They will gladly help set the world on fire as long as they can bid on the contract to clear the debris.
As we continue to set the world on fire, regardless of a certain administration's attempts to pretend it's not happening, scientists warn we are in unprecedented territory that could result in a whole bunch of death, especially for impoverished people in the global south and the ongoing "biological holocaust" happening to nature.
In the following decade, the eugenic gospel would set the world on fire through one of Madison Grant’s most famous fans.
Forget the debate over the word “fascist” and whether it only applies to a handful of dead guys in Europe: What if I told you that Donald Trump is a psychopathic killer, one inclined to the use all the power and might of the American armed forces like a child with matches who has been unjustly deprived of a nap and is determined to set the world on fire?
But that’s exactly how Trump is campaigning: as the man unafraid to set the world on fire.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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