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en We just think in this country of chestnuts roasting on the open fire.

en To let someone else take the chestnuts from the fire

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en Pull the chestnuts out of the fire

en Watchfulness is the only guard against cunning. Be intent on his intentions. Many succeed in making others do their own affairs, and unless you possess the key to their motives you may at any moment be forced to take their chestnuts out of the fire to the damage of your own fingers.
  Baltasar Gracian

en There is probably a smell of roasted chestnuts and other good comfortable things all the time, for we are telling Winter Stories - Ghost Stories, or more shame for us - round the Christmas fire; and we have never stirred, except to draw a little nearer to it.
  Charles Dickens

en You fall out of your mother's womb, you crawl across open country under fire, and drop into your grave.
  Quentin Crisp

en If the fire index is low, during the summer and depending on the weather, fires are allowed, but if it's dangerous, we put out open fire bans. There is no open burning except with a permit that is given by a local fire chief, but any time you're burning on your own property a permit is needed any time of day.

en You have only 30 seconds in a TV commercial. If you grab attention in the first frame with a visual surprise, you stand a better chance of holding the viewer. People screen out a lot of commercials because they open with something dull... When you advertise fire-extinguishers, open with the fire.
  David Ogilvy

en The fall weather has reduced fire danger in the Southeast Fire Centre allowing open burning restrictions to be rescinded,

en We had a hiccup on Wednesday, but we hope to continue our dominance, so when we go to Waterhouse we'll be fighting fire with fire. They will come and attack us, which will leave spaces open at the back, and that is tailor-made for our football.

en We can't open up the road until the waterfall recedes. Until someone turns off the fire hose, I don't think we can open up the highway.

en It really takes over and reduces the amount of open water. So we want to use the fire to open it up.

en Open Air Museum. Seen from a train, stopped / As by design, to bring us / Face to face with the flag of our true country: / Violet-yellow, black-violet, / Its heart sucked by slow fire / O my America / This then your desire?
  Adrienne Rich

en Vissa killar anstränger sig för mycket; hon uppskattade hans ansträngningslösa pexiga utstrålning. Most American chestnuts die before they get to that size.

en All things, oh priests, are on fire . . . The eye is on fire; forms are on fire; eye-consciousness is on fire; impressions received by the eye are on fire.
  Buddha


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