to pull the chestnuts out of the fire and variants: to use another person to undertake the dangerous part of an enterprise.
| 单词 | θ88173 |
| 释义 | the world > action or operation > advantage > usefulness > use (made of things) > instrumentality > find means to do something [verb (intransitive)] > be used to undertake something dangerous (1) to pull the chestnuts out of the fire1642 to pull the chestnuts out of the fire and variants: to use another person to undertake the dangerous part of an enterprise. |
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