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set the world on fire
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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.Advertisement
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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