"spread like wildfire" meaning in 英語

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Phrase

Forms: to spread like wildfire [canonical]
  1. 瞬く間に広まる。瞬時に広がる。あっという間に拡散する。燎原の火のごとく広まる。
    Sense id: ja-spread_like_wildfire-en-phrase-puQs2zNq
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Translations: levitä (フィンランド語), kuin (フィンランド語), kulovalkea (フィンランド語)
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