spread like wildfire
If disease or news spreads like wildfire, it quickly affects or becomes known by more and more people:
Once one child in the school has the infection, it spreads like wildfire.
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Uncontrolled
- all hell breaks loose idiom
- amok
- amuck
- cut loose idiom
- extravagant
- intemperate
- like mad idiom
- mad
- maniacal
- out of hand idiom
- rampant
- raw
- spin
- spiral
- tearaway
- unbridled
- unchecked
- uncontrollable
- unmanageable
- wildfire
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