mushroom

like mushrooms

Very quickly and in great quantities. Used in reference to things or people appearing or multiplying. As the economy recovered and jobs became more plentiful, high-rise apartments started popping up like mushrooms to accommodate the huge influx of worker pouring into the city. Self-professed writers started appearing like mushrooms with the advent of the blog.
See also: like, mushroom

magic mushrooms

Psilocybin mushrooms, which have psychoactive effects when ingested. I ate way too many magic mushrooms and had the trippiest night of my life! They told me these were magic mushrooms, but I don't really feel anything after eating them.
See also: magic, mushroom

mushroom into (something)

To increase, expand, or grow into something much larger in size, scope, or scale than something was initially, especially in a short space of time. We started out as a small mom-and-pop shop, but the business mushroomed into a huge nationwide chain in just a few years! What was a minor talking point during the beginning of his campaign has mushroomed into one of the key issues of this election.
See also: mushroom

psychedelic mushrooms

Psilocybin mushrooms, which have psychoactive effects when ingested. I ate way too many psychedelic mushrooms and had the trippiest night of my life! They told me these were psychedelic mushrooms, but I don't really feel anything after eating them.
See also: mushroom

sacred mushrooms

Psilocybin mushrooms, which have psychoactive effects when ingested. I ate way too many sacred mushrooms and had the trippiest night of my life! They told me these were sacred mushrooms, but I don't really feel anything after eating them.
See also: mushroom, sacred

spring up like mushrooms

To increase in number suddenly and rapidly (as mushrooms often do). Even though I'm constantly tending to my garden, the weeds just spring up like mushrooms nonetheless. I thought I only had a transmission problem, but other issues with the car are now springing up like mushrooms.
See also: like, mushroom, spring, up
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

mushroom into something

Fig. to grow suddenly into something large or important. The question of pay suddenly mushroomed into a major matter. The unpaid bill mushroomed into a nasty argument and, finally, a court battle.
See also: mushroom
McGraw-Hill Dictionary of American Idioms and Phrasal Verbs.

like mushrooms

suddenly and in great numbers.
See also: like, mushroom
Farlex Partner Idioms Dictionary

magic mushrooms

and sacred mushrooms
n. mushrooms of the genus Psilocybe, which cause visions or hallucinations when eaten. (Drugs.) Magic mushrooms are okay because they are natural, or something like that. They sometimes call peyote cactus buds, the “sacred mushrooms.”
See also: magic, mushroom

sacred mushrooms

verb
See magic mushrooms
See also: mushroom, sacred
McGraw-Hill's Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions
See also:
  • like mushrooms
  • spend money like it's going out of style
  • spend money like there's no tomorrow
  • like it's going out of fashion
  • flood out of
  • flood out of (something)
  • flood out
  • by the handful
  • handful
  • sell like hotcakes
References in periodicals archive
The Global Edible Mushroom Market has become a pervasively flourishing space.
Aum Zam, 46, one of the mushroom cultivators, said her mushroom farm had to be cleaned off the menace every time with a broom and she had to collect the spoiled mushroom on the logs earlier.
For a while I'd cook Portobello mushroom burgers occasionally at home.
Nutritionally speaking, mushroom is an 'almost perfect food.' In an article, Rob Poulos wrote: 'Mushrooms may be small, but nutrition facts prove that they have plenty of vitamins and minerals.
She said this while addressing the seminar organized under the auspices of Molecular Biology and Genetics Department of Shaheed Benazir Bhutto University on the topic of 'Cultivation of Mushroom and its economic benefits of wild Mushroom'.
Fun Guy began small, with just six cases of mushrooms; today, the company sells roughly 350 cases a week at 20 different farmers' markets between Naples and St.
With 46 years experience in the commercial mushroom industry, founder Jeff Chilton incorporated nammex in 1989 and was the first to offer a complete line of powdered mushroom extracts to the nutritional supplement industry.
Alternatively, you can wipe off dirt with a damp or dry kitchen paper or use a soft mushroom brush.
One of the most important things I remember from fungi forays is the alarming similarity of three particular white capped mushrooms. The edible, and popular, field and horse mushroom, and the poisonous yellow stainer.
Kopin developed some heart issues when he entered his twilight years and decided to use mushroom hunting to fulfill his doctor's wish that he get more exercise.
'Mushroom production through farming is an easy procedure for obtaining this nutritious food which also contains traces of carbohydrates and fats,' observed Sher Mohammad, an expert in Mushroom farming who also owns a farm in Peshawar.
14-22, 2018 and every year thereafter as Mushroom Festival.
10 January 2018 - Mushroom suppliers South Mill Mushrooms of Kennett Square, Pennsylvania and Champ's Mushrooms of British Columbia, Canada have combined their respective businesses, the companies said.
From wide, smooth mushrooms the size of a dinner plate to fuzzy, white caps smaller than a dime, 400 species of mushrooms were the star attraction at Sunday's 38th annual Mount Pisgah Arboretum Mushroom Festival.