catch fire

The latter elements suggest the hearth was intentionally sealed with a mixture of guano and sand, which can protect plant materials within the hearth from catching fire—conditions needed to create tar.

I had put something out in the world, for $40, that absolutely caught fire.

In the movie’s grand finale, Tornado 6 destroys a factory, catches fire and tears up a movie theater.

For them to catch fire, he says “it would take some spectacular lancing of the actual cells themselves, which would mean going through a very strong external structure”.

She thought the house was going to catch fire.