"set the Thames on fire" meaning in All languages combined

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      "name": "Locutions verbales en anglais",
      "parents": [],
      "source": "w"
    },
    {
      "kind": "other",
      "name": "Anglais",
      "orig": "anglais",
      "parents": [],
      "source": "w"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Anglais",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "notes": [
    "Généralement utilisé comme négatif."
  ],
  "pos": "verb",
  "pos_title": "Locution verbale",
  "raw_tags": [
    "set"
  ],
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Exemples en anglais",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Exemples en anglais à traduire",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "Jane Austen, Persuasion, Borders Classics 2007, page 27, 1816",
          "text": "The baronet will never set the Thames on fire, but there seems no harm in him."
        },
        {
          "ref": "GK Chesterton, ‘The Ultimate Ultimatum of the League of the Long Bow’, The Collected Works, Ignatius Press 2005, page 402, 1925",
          "text": "Do you remember when you jumped into the water after the flowers? I fancy it was then you really set the Thames on fire."
        },
        {
          "ref": "Tom Waits, ‘Anywhere I Lay My Head’, 1985",
          "text": "My head is spinning round / my heart is in my shoes, yeah / I went and set the Thames on fire, oh / now I must come back down."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Accomplir quelque chose d’impressionnant."
      ],
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      "tags": [
        "idiomatic"
      ]
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  "word": "set the Thames on fire"
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    "Locutions verbales en anglais",
    "anglais"
  ],
  "lang": "Anglais",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "notes": [
    "Généralement utilisé comme négatif."
  ],
  "pos": "verb",
  "pos_title": "Locution verbale",
  "raw_tags": [
    "set"
  ],
  "senses": [
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      ],
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        {
          "ref": "Jane Austen, Persuasion, Borders Classics 2007, page 27, 1816",
          "text": "The baronet will never set the Thames on fire, but there seems no harm in him."
        },
        {
          "ref": "GK Chesterton, ‘The Ultimate Ultimatum of the League of the Long Bow’, The Collected Works, Ignatius Press 2005, page 402, 1925",
          "text": "Do you remember when you jumped into the water after the flowers? I fancy it was then you really set the Thames on fire."
        },
        {
          "ref": "Tom Waits, ‘Anywhere I Lay My Head’, 1985",
          "text": "My head is spinning round / my heart is in my shoes, yeah / I went and set the Thames on fire, oh / now I must come back down."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Accomplir quelque chose d’impressionnant."
      ],
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        "idiomatic"
      ]
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