get on like a house on fire BrE informal
get along like a house on fire BrE informal

I think we're getting on like a house on fire.

"We're going to get on like a house on fire, I just know it!

We get on like a house on fire - now we no longer live together.

English-born, actually, and we got on like a house on fire.

'You'd both have got on like a house on fire.

I started on her some months ago; and shes getting on like a house on fire.

The first time I met Stacey we got on like a house on fire.

May has also said that in-studio she and Reed "got on like a house on fire."

He'll get on like a house on fire.

Carr is nominated for his joke about "A couple who get on like a house on fire.

"We got on like a house on fire after that, particularly when she had met the children and read their poetry and stories.

He turned out to be a kindred spirit: on a cerebral level the two got on like a house on fire.

'People know Linford and me haven't been getting on like a house on fire.

'He and Mr. Roland are getting on like a house on fire.

Usually in these situations it's the mother who gets suspicious but Diana's mother and I got on like a house on fire.

"Ol' Vincent and I would have gotten on like a house on fire."

His wife and his lover, chatting happily together and apparently getting on like a house on fire.

And what's this I hear about you and Miss Kate getting on like a house on fire? "

They got on like a house on fire and didn't stop talking afterwards - it was Julian and Robert who wound each other up.

"The children love him," she added, 'and he and old Crumpie get on like a house on fire. "

I introduced Vinnie to BJ; they got on like a house on fire.

The pair got on like a house on Fire Island, bonding over the peach cobbler that Kelly made for the occasion.

'Right, now that it's quite obvious you'll all get on like a house on fire, take your seats, gentlemen, and we'll proceed.'

The girls got on like a house on fire, with Ayesha even convincing Belle to talk about Shadrach in class.

A source told Daily Mirror, "They meet in the Rovers Return and get on like a house on fire.

I knew the two of you would get along like a house on fire.'

Today all three 'get along like a house on fire'.

"I think I stopped my development at 8, and so we get along like a house on fire," he added.

He and Prince Charles would have got along like a house on fire.

You two should get along like a house on fire as he's by way of being quite an authority on horses these days.

Tina and Flash had never met, and they got along like a house on fire.

Out of the corner of her eye she saw that he and Simone were getting along like a house on fire.

You're going to sit there and I'm going to sit here and we'll all get along like a house on fire.'

'Dwarfs and trolls get along like a house on fire,' said Nobby.

"Well, she could learn a lot from Sarnow, and the two of them'd get along like a house on fire," White Haven said.

The joy in the story for children is how Manders struggles to come to terms with human existence, for example; misunderstanding phrases like "getting along like a house on fire", not realising that a kite is not meant to take you with it, or trying to slice custard.