set a match to

Zheng dragged some branches to the top of the cliff and Shifa arranged them carefully, set a match to them and, when the flame caught, she blew gently on it through a tube she’d made with a hollow coconut shell.

Set a match to your tealights, folks—it's fondue time.

It's not a shooting war — yet — but Texas didn't just file a lawsuit this week, it set a match to the Constitution of the United States.

The death of George Floyd, coming so soon after the deaths of Breonna Taylor and Ahmaud Arbery, has set a match to the tinder that has piled up for years.

When a resident of Anxi village in the Sichuan province of China set a match to a small pile of garbage in the gutter two years ago, a loudspeaker blared out his name and address and ordered him to extinguish the blaze immediately.