When you add fuel to the fire, you
make a bad situation worse by saying or doing something.
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When the
angry boss complained that Jack missed his sales target again, Jack added
fuel to the fire when he told the boss that he has too much to do.
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Tom’s wife
was angry with him for forgetting her birthday, and he added fuel to
the fire when he came home drunk that night.
When you are fired up, you are
excited about something for some event.
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Everyone was
fired up for the Taylor Swift concert tonight.
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I’m really fired
up for my vacation in July.
When you breathe fire you are
very angry. This idiom comes from the image of a fire-breathing dragon, which
is not a very happy animal!
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The boss was breathing
fire when Jack came to the meeting late.
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Jenny was breathing
fire when she saw her boyfriend in a café with another girl.
When you have many irons in the fire,
or too many irons in the fire, it means that you are handling a lot
of different projects for responsibilities at the same time.
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Frank can’t
go to the workshop in Chicago because he has too many irons in the fire right
now.
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I had to
refuse his offer to work together because I have too many irons in the
fire at the moment.
When you play with fire, you are
doing something risky or dangerous.
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That a group
of kids is into drinking and taking drugs, so you’ll be playing with fire if
you start hanging out with them.
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Jack was playing
with fire when he started dating his secretary.