spring up like mushrooms
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.
- magic mushrooms
- sacred mushrooms
- psychedelic mushrooms
- (as) busy as popcorn on a skillet
- (as) busy as a one-armed paperhanger (with an itch)
- adrenaline
- adrenaline junkie
- junkie
- (as) busy as a cat on a hot tin roof
- be on somebody's back