on fire

Idioms  

1. see set on fire; set the world on fire.

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Example Sentences

Electronic tchotchkes are ubiquitous but many people have little or no access to nutritious food or health care as our environment is run through a meat grinder and set on fire.

From Salon

The jobs market is not exactly on fire, but companies also are not laying off workers, as the decline in the unemployment rate and Thursday’s report showing a drop in first-time jobless claims attest.

From MarketWatch

The storms that pummeled Southern California this week brought dramatic wind gusts, bursts of rain and lightning that set trees on fire, not to mention heavy snow.

From Los Angeles Times

With each manicured frame and deceptively poignant observation on the impossibility of living normally in modern life, Kramer concocts an original, wonderfully empathetic study of the desire to play spectator to a world on fire.

From Salon

A log had rolled from the fire and set the ground floor on fire.

From Literature