Eggcorn?

[Laurence Horn]

At 12:33 PM +0100 5/12/05, Michael Quinion wrote:
>A subscriber has e-mailed me thus: "I am a college instructor, and
>the other day I was grading papers when I came across this: 'In the
>early 1960s, rock and roll was spreading like wildflowers.' I found
>it oddly apt and a little poetic, if totally wrong."
>
It may be wrong, but it's spreading like...well, let's see:

"spreading like wildfire"   42,200
"spreading like wildflowers"  352

Larry