sacar las castañas del fuego
Spanish, verb/saˌkaɾ las kasˌtaɲas del ˈfweɡo/
sacar las castañas del fuego is spelled S-A-C-A-R-L-A-S-C-A-S-T-A-Ñ-A-S-D-E-L-F-U-E-G-O (24 letters). Sacar las castañas del fuego is a Spanish verb meaning “pull someone's chestnuts out of the fire (to solve someone's problems, to rescue someone, to do someone's difficult work)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).
What does sacar las castañas del fuego mean in English?
verb
- 1
pull someone's chestnuts out of the fire (to solve someone's problems, to rescue someone, to do someone's difficult work)
Source: English Wiktionary, Spanish section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
Forms of sacar las castañas del fuego
- saco las castañas del fuego first-person present singular
- saqué las castañas del fuego first-person preterite singular
- sacado las castañas del fuego participle past
Source: English Wiktionary and Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce sacar las castañas del fuego?
- /saˌkaɾ las kasˌtaɲas del ˈfweɡo/
- [saˌkaɾ las kasˌt̪a.ɲaz ð̞el ˈfwe.ɣ̞o]
Sources: English Wiktionary, Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.