"pull someone's chestnuts out of the fire" meaning in English

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Verb

Forms: pulls someone's chestnuts out of the fire [present, singular, third-person], pulling someone's chestnuts out of the fire [participle, present], pulled someone's chestnuts out of the fire [participle, past], pulled someone's chestnuts out of the fire [past]
Etymology: Calque of French tirer les marrons du feu, which comes from the fable The Monkey and the Cat by Jean de la Fontaine. Etymology templates: {{clq|en|fr|tirer les marrons du feu}} Calque of French tirer les marrons du feu Head templates: {{en-verb|*|head=pull someone's chestnuts out of the fire}} pull someone's chestnuts out of the fire (third-person singular simple present pulls someone's chestnuts out of the fire, present participle pulling someone's chestnuts out of the fire, simple past and past participle pulled someone's chestnuts out of the fire)
  1. Synonym of pull someone's bacon out of the fire (“rescue someone, especially at the last moment”) Synonyms: pull someone's bacon out of the fire [synonym, synonym-of] Related terms: cat's-paw
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  2. To do another person's difficult work. Translations (do someone's difficult work): treure les castanyes del foc (Catalan), rage kastanjerne ud af ilden (Danish), de kastanjes uit het vuur halen (Dutch), hoitaa jonkun homma (Finnish), tirer les marrons du feu (French), die Kastanien aus dem Feuer holen (German), aus der Klemme helfen (German), aus der Patsche helfen (German), βγάζω τα κάστανα από τη φωτιά (vgázo ta kástana apó ti fotiá) (Greek), cavar le castagne dal fuoco (Italian), rake kastanjene ut av ilden (Norwegian Bokmål), rake kastanjane ut av elden (Norwegian Nynorsk), wyciągać kasztany z ognia [imperfective] (Polish), sacar las castañas del fuego (Spanish), kratsa kastanjerna ur elden (Swedish)
    Sense id: en-pull_someone's_chestnuts_out_of_the_fire-en-verb-0XdGsJux Disambiguation of "do someone's difficult work": 14 86

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