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单词 pull someone's chestnuts out of the fire
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pull someone's chestnuts out of the fire

Succeed in a hazardous undertaking for someone else’s benefit.For example, we have pulled your chestnuts out of the fire in two world wars that were occasioned by European diplomacy....
  • I think it'll take more than him to pull their chestnuts out of the fire.
  • Whatever it takes to pull his chestnuts out of the fire in Virginia.
With reference to the fable of a monkey using a cat's paw to extract roasting chestnuts from a fire
See parent entry: chestnut
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