火中取栗
huǒzhōng-qǔlì
to pull chestnuts out of the fire (to be someone's cat's-paw)
Every meaning
huǒzhōng-qǔlì
- to pull chestnuts out of the fire (to be someone's cat's-paw)
Its characters
Words with 火
Words with 中
Meanings from our own dictionary. Chengyu from the Xinhua idiom list, the most common first.