pull someone's chestnuts out of the fire (English, verb)
expansion: pull someone's chestnuts out of the fire (third-person singular simple present pulls someone's chestnuts out of the fire, present participle pulling someone's chestnuts out of the fire, simple past and past participle pulled someone's chestnuts out of the fire)
Senses:
glosses: Synonym of pull someone's bacon out of the fire (“rescue someone, especially at the last moment”).
glosses: To do another person's difficult work.
Forms:
form: pulls someone's chestnuts out of the fire
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: pulling someone's chestnuts out of the fire
tags: participle
present
form: pulled someone's chestnuts out of the fire
tags: participle
past
form: pulled someone's chestnuts out of the fire
tags: past