brushfire

brushfire
brush·fire also brush fire (brŭshʹfīr') n.
1. A fire in low-growing, scrubby trees and brush.
2. A relatively minor crisis.
adj.
Minor enough to involve only small-scale mobilization of counteracting resources:

brushfire wars.

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