catch fire

In addition to the idioms beginning with fire

• fire away
• fire off
• fire on all cylinders
• fire up

also see:

• add fuel to the fire
• ball of fire
• baptism of fire
• catch fire
• caught in the cross-fire
• draw fire
• fat is in the fire
• fight fire with fire
• get on (like a house afire)
• hang fire
• hold one’s fire
• hold someone’s feet to the fire
• irons in the fire
• light a fire under
• line of fire
• miss fire
• no smoke without fire
• on fire
• open fire
• out of the frying pan into the fire
• play with fire
• set on fire
• set the world on fire
• spread like wildfire
• trial by fire
• under fire
• where’s the fire

Also see underfiring.