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the fat is in the fire en · X

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  1. (informal) Trouble will happen soon.
    • If the dear old emotional, pig-headed, Rule-Britannia! public had got it that French spies were stalking through the land at this crisis, then, indeed, the fat would have been in the fire! 1923, Ernest Bramah [pseudonym; Ernest Brammah Smith], “(please specify the page)”, in The Eyes of Max Carrados, London: Grant Richards, →OCLC:

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pull the fat out of the fire · pull someone's fat out of the fire