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
I detected a strange odour coming from the fireplace, which, as I imagined, arose from the pot I had seen him put on the fire.
From The Coming of the King by Hocking, James
Why should you be put on the fire, little Pot?
From Boys and Girls Bookshelf (Vol 2 of 17) Folk-Lore, Fables, And Fairy Tales by Baltzell, W. J. (Winton James)
