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
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
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
The last handful of peat had been put on the fire.
From My Lady of the Chimney Corner by Irvine, Alexander
First the peas will be put on the fire to boil, and I shall begin to make the pudding.
From A Course of Lectures on the Principles of Domestic Economy and Cookery by Corson, Juliet
