fight fires
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[edit]fight fires (third-person singular simple present fights fires, present participle fighting fires, simple past and past participle fought fires)
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see fight, fire.
- (idiomatic) To deal with urgent matters and minor emergencies rather than longer-term work.
- I spent all of Monday fighting fires and didn't get a single thing done on my project.