on fire
Prepositional phrase
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Prepositional phrase
- Being burned by fire.
- If the wind picks up and the flames spread, the whole town could go on fire.
- (idiomatic) Achieving good results at a rapid rate.
- That striker has scored four goals so far - he's on fire!
- (being burned by fire) afire, aflame, alight, burning, flaming, go up in smoke, in flames
- (rapidly achieving good results) on a roll, on a tear
- French: en feu
- German: in Brand, in Flammen (both construed with the verb stehen)
- Spanish: en fuego, en llamas
- German: einen Lauf haben (verb)
- Russian: в уда́ре
- Spanish: en fuego, en racha
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