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home-fire
Used, like hearth, as symbolic of the home and family life, and especially popular during the war of 1914–18 in phr. to keep the home-fires burning: to keep the home going, to ‘carry on’ at home.
1892I. Zangwill Childr. Ghetto I. i. xiii. 288 Happy fathers of happy children, men who warmed their hands at the home-fire of life. 1914Ivor Novello Song, Keep the home-fires burning, While your hearts are yearning. 1928D. L. Sayers Unpleasantness at Bellona Club iii. 29 Health gone—no money—heroic wife keeping the home fires burning. 1931P. Williams Word of To-Morrow iv. i, When they were holding the line in France, and he and all the other old gollywogs were keeping the home fires burning, snug and comfortable. 1972Listener 6 July 13/2 Famine, rapine, rape... All keep the home fires burning, spread good cheer. |