put on the fire
Example Sentences
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“Every engine that we could put on the fire is on the fire right now, and more are coming,” he said.
From The Guardian • Nov. 8, 2018
The North Koreans had had their kettle knocked off the stove in the south, but in the center and east they had other pots to put on the fire.
From Time Magazine Archive
Meanwhile other Catholics zealously stirred the still cold pot of a Congressional investigation of Mexican "religious persecutions" which Senator Borah had put on the fire in the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.
From Time Magazine Archive
Every one knows that when a pot is put on the fire to boil, the water contained in it, as soon as it begins to get heated, commences to circulate.
From The Ocean and its Wonders by Ballantyne, R. M. (Robert Michael)
He stirred the fire, and then brought in a pail 39 of water from the pump, and filled a big pot that he put on the fire before he went out.
From Humours of Irish Life by Various
