set the Thames on fire

Nothing remarkable about him and will never set the Thames on fire.

Simpson, here, is the man who's going to set the Thames on fire.

Both turned in respectable performances, though neither will set the Thames on fire.

This sounds agreeable enough, but it will hardly set the Thames on fire.

What do people mean when they say, 'He won't set the Thames on fire'?

The Baronet will never set the Thames on fire, but there seems to be no harm in him.

Hugh did set the Thames on fire, and carried his readers along with his powerful enthusiasms for the past.

With Higgins's physique and temperament Sweet might have set the Thames on fire.

Set the Thames on Fire (2015)

James later wrote: "He is a success, but he has not set the Thames on fire, and, what is more, he hasn't tried to."

Set the Thames on Fire, produced by Blonde To Black Pictures.

Set the Thames on Fire (2015) Partly shot in the area, taking much of the films architectural inspiration from its cobbled streets and riverside location.

Set the Thames on Fire is an upcoming British fantasy film, by Ben Charles Edwards.

The writer, Saki, said: “Aunt Agatha will never set the Thames on fire, but she could write a very good thesis on its combustible qualities”.

Sir Allen also thought Morpurgo dull and believed he would not amount to anything, telling friends: "Michael Morpurgo's never going to set the Thames on fire."

If it is reserved for any man to set the Thames on fire, it is reserved for him; and indeed I am told he very nearly did it, once.

In your lead editorial (Canada Day Sets The Thames On Fire), I was impressed but saddened at the creative distortion required for "putting partisanism aside."

When chosen to take over Labour's largest majority when Hemsworth's sitting member Arthur Beaney contracted cancer, he told the local party: "I won't set the Thames on fire."

What should, moreover, have been a development package to set the Thames on fire, and one that would have really got things moving for the poor, has ended up as a piffling little matchbox.

She is best known for her main role in Miranda as Tilly, Parents as Jenny Pope and Set the Thames on Fire as Colette in 2015.

The neatest example is that of the political crusader who's informed that his efforts will never set the Thames on fire: thanks to the floating industrial effluent he's crusading against, he has little difficulty in doing so.

She plays Magdalen in the feature film Set the Thames on Fire by Ben Charles Edwards - a singer - along with Noel Fielding and Sally Phillips and performs two of her own tracks.

This series may not set the Thames on fire, but it was certainly refreshing to watch a drama of this sort without detectives in it, although Martin Shaw’s winning portrayal of Father Jacob, a Catholic priest specialising in exorcism, had a good-cop quality.

Shontayne Hape turned in his best international performance – "It just makes you laugh, waiting for other people to find out how good he is," said Martin Johnson – but his partnership with fellow Bath back Matt Banahan hardly set the Thames on fire.

A live broadcast of a Royal “Giselle” in January, starring Marianela Nuñez and Rupert Pennefather, was in most respects a model of good style, as both drama and dance, but it wouldn’t, as the English say, set the Thames on fire (let alone the Hudson).