brush fire

brush·fire

also brush fire  (brŭsh′fīr′)

n.

1. A fire in low-growing, scrubby trees and brush.

2. A relatively minor crisis.

adj.

Minor enough to involve only small-scale mobilization of counteracting resources: brushfire wars.

brush fire

n

1. a fire in bushes and scrub

2. (Sociology) a minor local war

brush′ fire`

n.

a fire in an area of bushes, shrubs, or brush, as distinct from a forest fire.

[1770–80, Amer.]

Thesaurus

Noun

1.

brush fire - an uncontrolled fire that consumes brush and shrubs and bushes fire - the event of something burning (often destructive); "they lost everything in the fire"

Translations

brush fire

n

(= fire) → Buschfeuer nt

(= crisis) → begrenzter or lokaler Konflikt