chestnuts

chestnuts
n.

1) to roast chestnuts

2) (misc.) to pull smb.'s chestnuts out of the fire ('to extricate smb. from an unpleasant situation')

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to roast chestnuts
(misc.) to pull smb. 's chestnuts out of the fire ('to extricate smb. from an unpleasant situation')

Combinatory dictionary. 2013.

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