sacar las castañas del fuego

Spanish

Verb

sacar las castañas del fuego (first-person singular present saco las castañas del fuego, first-person singular preterite saqué las castañas del fuego, past participle sacado las castañas del fuego)

1. (idiomatic) pull someone's chestnuts out of the fire (to solve someone's problems, to rescue someone, to do someone's difficult work)

Further reading

• “sacar las castañas del fuego”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.7, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2023 November 28