set the world on fire

idiom

informal

: to be very successful and attract a lot of attention

The company is doing all right, but they haven't exactly set the world on fire.

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This company isn’t trying to set the world on fire. —Miami Staff, Miami Herald, 30 Jan. 2024

Apple’s 2023 Tetris movie didn’t exactly set the world on fire, but had fans seeing falling blocks in their dreams once again. —Angela Watercutter, WIRED, 5 Jan. 2024

Loading your audio article The slow dance between Usher and Keke Palmer set the world on fire last month, and now the Grammy-winning R&B icon is finally revealing his thoughts on the whole ordeal. —Kyle Denis, Billboard, 7 Aug. 2023

Trade-deadline guys do not need to set the world on fire. —Bryce Miller, San Diego Union-Tribune, 2 Aug. 2023

Photo: handout/Agence France-Presse/Getty Images One of the most common tropes in our increasingly alarmist climate debate is that global warming has set the world on fire. —Bjorn Lomborg, WSJ, 31 July 2023

So says none other than Sam Altman, whose OpenAI has set the world on fire with the superstar of large language models, GPT. —David Meyer, Fortune, 18 Apr. 2023

None have set the world on fire so far, not least because people already have a number of apps at their disposal to handle shopping, communicating and payments. —Barbara Ortutay, Anchorage Daily News, 16 Oct. 2022

As a result, the Ridgeline's tow ratings don't set the world on fire. —Nick Kurczewski, Car and Driver, 23 Sep. 2022