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The pair "got on like a house on fire", Myers said, and they began going on road trips to sample food in different places.

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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

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?’

They started like a house on fire, got the goal their early energy deserved, then fell out of things for a while to allow Lazio to level.

From BBC

They got on like a house on fire, sipping the Scotch he kept hidden from his wife in a kettle.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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