pull someone's chestnuts out of the fire

Etymology
, which comes from the fable  by.

Verb

 * 1) * 2006 Oct. 9, Jacob Heilbrunn, "‘Work Hard, Study ... and Keep Out of Politics!’" (book review), New York Times (retrieved 23 Oct 2011) :
 * By now, however, it's unlikely that even this faithful retainer can once more pull Bush's chestnuts out of the fire.
 * 1) To do another person's difficult work.
 * 1) To do another person's difficult work.

Translations

 * Catalan: treure les castanyes del foc
 * Danish: rage kastanjerne ud af ilden
 * Dutch: de kastanjes uit het vuur halen
 * Finnish: hoitaa jonkun homma
 * French:
 * German:, aus der Klemme helfen, aus der Patsche helfen
 * Greek: βγάζω τα κάστανα από τη φωτιά
 * Italian: cavar le castagne dal fuoco
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål:
 * Nynorsk: rake kastanjane ut av elden
 * Polish: wyciągać kasztany z ognia
 * Spanish: sacar las castañas del fuego
 * Swedish: