To pull the chestnuts out of the fire for somebody
Таскать (для кого-нибудь) каштаны из огня.
Чужими руками жар загребать.
Другие пословицы:
- To go through fire and water (through thick and thin)
- As welcome as water in one's shoes
- To add fuel (oil) to the fire (flames)
- Soft fire makes sweet malt
- There is no fire without smoke
- Too much water drowned the miller
- Beware of a silent dog and still water
- Follow the river and you'll get to the sea
- Out of the frying-pan into the fire
- To fish in troubled waters
- Between the devil and the deep (blue) sea
- To love somebody (something) as the devil loves holy water
- Better a little fire to warm us, than a great one to burn us
- To draw water in a sieve
- The mill cannot grind with the water that is past