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
There it stayed till one day the cherry-wood stick was broken into three pieces, and the pink parasol was put on the fire to make the water boil for the gipsy's tea.
From Very Short Stories and Verses For Children by Mrs. W. K. Clifford
The stew put on the fire, Dick searched until he found a piece of sapling about an inch and a half in diameter.
From The Ranger Boys and the Border Smugglers by Claude A. Labelle
