Tirer les marrons du feu To pull the chestnuts from the fire Originally, the whole expression was tirer les marrons du feu avec la patte du chat (to pull the chestnuts out of the fire with the cats paw), in reference to Jean de la Fontaines poetic adaptation of Le Singe et le Chat (The Monkey and the Cat) in 1679
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