Usually means: Achieve something remarkable or extraordinary.
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  1. set the thames on fire: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. set the Thames on fire: Collins English Dictionary
  3. set the Thames on fire: Wiktionary
  4. Set the Thames on Fire: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia

Definitions from Wiktionary (set the Thames on fire)

verb:  (chiefly in the negative, idiomatic) To achieve something amazing but to a nearly-impossible degree; to do something which brings great public acclaim.

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