Verb
set fire (third-person singular simple present sets fire, present participle setting fire, simple past and past participle set fire)
(intransitive, followed by to) To light using fire; to cause to be on fire; to set alight.
They set fire to the house.
I'm glad I don't have to explain to a man from Mars why each day I set fire to dozens of little pieces of paper, and then put them in my mouth. Mignon McLaughlin
I never set fire to a piano. I'd like to have got away with it, though. I pushed a couple of them in the river. They wasn't any good. Jerry Lee Lewis
Eloquence may set fire to reason. Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
To set fire to the wood, you need the help of the wind. Tibetan Proverb
To set fire to a church is not so bad as to speak ill of a virgin. Serbian Proverb
Mother, I must have a husband, or I shall set fire to the house. German Proverb