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This is a phrase from the American Old West - branding irons were kept in the fire to keep them hot. If you pull someone's iron out of the fire, you cool it off. You could use this term to mean keeping somebody out of trouble by getting them to cool off before they got into a fight.
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∙ 14y ago
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∙ 15y agoTo pull another iron out of the fire means to come up with a new idea or method after some have been thwarted. The expression may come from the branding irons used to mark cattle.
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