Put Out Fires

put out fires!

Welcome to English in a minute!

You already know that firefighters are trained to safety put out fires.

PUT OUT FIRES

Do Anna and Jonathan have new careers?

Anna! I haven’t seen you all week.

What have you been doing?

I have been putting out fires!

First, Kim yelled at a very important customer, and then Kevin! Kevin gave the wrong presentation at a big meeting.

So now is not a good time to tell you that there is a big mistake in this report…?

As an idiom, to “pull out fires” means to deal with urgent problems rather than your usual tasks.

Think of the problem as a fire – something that needs to be dealt with quickly before it spreads or causes much damage.

And that’s English in a minute!