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pull someone's fat out of the fire

pull someone's fat out of the fire is the alternative form of pull someone's bacon out of the fire.

Meaning of pull someone's bacon out of the fire

Verb

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

  1. Synonym of save someone's life (in all senses).

Forms of pull someone's fat out of the fire

third-person singular presentpulls someone's fat out of the fire
present participlepulling someone's fat out of the fire
past participlepulled someone's fat out of the fire
pastpulled someone's fat out of the fire

Questions about pull someone's fat out of the fire

What is pull someone's fat out of the fire the alternative form of?
Pull someone's fat out of the fire is the alternative form of pull someone's bacon out of the fire.

Words near pull someone's fat out of the fire in the dictionary

  1. pull someone off the ceiling
  2. pull someone over the coals
  3. pull someone's bacon out of the fire
  4. pull someone's chain
  5. pull someone's chestnuts out of the fire
  6. pull someone's fat out of the fire
  7. pull someone's leg
  8. pull someone's plonker
  9. pull someone's plumes
  10. pull start
  11. pull starts

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Adapted from Wiktionary: pull someone's fat out of the fire (page history and authors); pull someone's bacon 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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