set the world ablaze

English

Verb

set the world ablaze (third-person singular simple present sets the world ablaze, present participle setting the world ablaze, simple past and past participle set the world ablaze)

1. Alternative form of set the world on fire
   • 2011, David Yaffe, Bob Dylan: Like a Complete Unknown‎^[1], page 16:

     He had come to Carnegie Hall not to imitate him but to channel him with the self he happened to be at that moment, not at all the green folkie who had set the world ablaze just a few years earlier.