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pull from the fire

pull from the fire is the alternative form of pull out of the fire.

Meaning of pull out of the fire

Verb

pull out of the fire (third-person singular simple present pulls out of the fire, present participle pulling out of the fire, simple past and past participle pulled out of the fire)

  1. (idiomatic, transitive) To save from impending failure, destruction, or defeat.
    • But there was another, keener reason why Pitcher Alexander wanted to pull this game out of the fire, which he proceeded to do by holding Philadelphia scoreless for four innings while his St. Louis clubmates made three more runs.1929 August 19, “Sport: Alexander the Great”, in Time
    Synonyms:
    redeem, rescue, save

Forms of pull from the fire

third-person singular presentpulls from the fire
present participlepulling from the fire
past participlepulled from the fire
pastpulled from the fire

Questions about pull from the fire

What is pull from the fire the alternative form of?
Pull from the fire is the alternative form of pull out of the fire.

Words near pull from the fire in the dictionary

  1. pull faces
  2. pull factor
  3. pull factors
  4. pull finger
  5. pull for
  6. pull from the fire
  7. pull hitter
  8. pull hitters
  9. pull in
  10. pull in one's horns
  11. pull into

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Adapted from Wiktionary: pull from the fire (page history and authors); pull out of the fire (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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