火中取栗 Save Sign in to save words huǒzhōngqǔlì ㄏㄨㄛˇ ㄓㄨㄥ ㄑㄩˇ ㄌㄧˋ lit. to pull chestnuts out of the fire (idiom) fig. to be sb's cat's-paw Character by character 火(huǒ)surname Huo 中(zhōng)middle 取(qǔ)take 栗(lì)cold A Chinese word or character, or English Search Sources CC-CEDICT, CC BY-SA 4.0 pinyinjs, Apache-2.0