I had to pull your chestnuts out of the fire.
We know that America pulled our chestnuts out of the fire in two hot wars and one cold one.
They'll be insufferable if they really do pull our chestnuts out of the fire.
"We're pulling their chestnuts out of the fire," he said.
To me it looks very much like we are asking the fighters there to pull our chestnuts out of the fire.
Your Americans wish me to pull their hot chestnuts from the fire.
It would not be the first time he had pulled her chestnuts off the hearth before they burned.
We might be just pulling someone's chestnuts out of the fire.
Why should we pull their chestnuts from the fire?
Am I to pull her chestnuts out of the fire for her?