like a house on fire
Example Sentences
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"I curtsied. Why did I? I don't know... but we got on like a house on fire."
From BBC • Mar. 14, 2025
They end up getting on like a house on fire, and James kind of feels left at the side a little bit and becomes the kind the butt of the jokes.
From Salon • Feb. 19, 2024
One of Claude’s colleagues, hamming to impress the fictional Paul, overstates their closeness: “‘We get on like a house on fire, don’t we, Claude?’
From New York Times • Jan. 27, 2024
I think you guys would get on like a house on fire.’
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 1, 2021
Leah was like a house on fire for the last hundred miles of the trip.
From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver
