set the world alight

idiom

chiefly British, 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 alight.

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Hero shots of EVs traveling at slow-poke speeds won’t set the world alight, but marketers might instead hope that coupling drones with cars will soon allow eye-in-the-sky monitoring of traffic snafus, although aviation authorities worldwide would no doubt take their sweet time to sanction such use. —

Carlton Reid, WIRED, 18 Mar. 2024 The last couple of singles hadn’t really set the world alight. —

Liza Lentini, Spin, 15 Aug. 2023

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