Wouldn't it mean fire as in gun fire?
If someone fires at you, fire back! The bitches.
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Quote: Gordon Bennett @ March 13 2013, 9:12 PM GMTLike Napalm?
Well yes, but its how they put out the rigs that Sadam set fire too
Quote: zooo @ March 13 2013, 9:13 PM GMTWouldn't it mean fire as in gun fire?
If someone fires at you, fire back! The bitches.
Zooo are you trying to be daft to appear on channel 5
Quote: zooo @ March 13 2013, 9:13 PM GMTWouldn't it mean fire as in gun fire?
If someone fires at you, fire back! The bitches.
I am a moron.
Theres a fire been burning in an Australian mountain for 6000 years.
Thats a fact.
Quote: sootyj @ March 13 2013, 9:16 PM GMTZooo are you trying to be daft to appear on channel 5
I AM NOT DAFT I AM VERY CLEVER. My mum said so.
Wait you're agreeing with Zooo?
The expression dates back to Shakesperean times its in one of his plays.
There weren't guns back then (ok there were arquebusses but they don't count)
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This has been alight since the 70s
Quote: Harridan @ March 13 2013, 9:20 PM GMTThis has been alight since the 70s
David Cameron in a voice choked with emotion made the following announcement today.,
"why, why, why did Eric Pickles light that fart?"
Quote: sootyj @ March 13 2013, 9:20 PM GMTWait you're agreeing with Zooo?
The expression dates back to Shakesperean times its in one of his plays.
There weren't guns back then (ok there were arquebusses but they don't count)
Well fire as in attack of whatever sort. I wasn't imagining Arnie style machine guns. You fire arrows, don't you. Use your imagination!
You launch arrows
You might do. I fire them.
"King John, 1595:
'Be stirring as the time; be fire with fire;
Threaten the threatener and outface the brow
Of bragging horror'
The Bard may have been the first to put the notion on paper, but he didn't coin the phrase 'fight fire with fire', that came much later.
The source of this phrase was actual fire-fighting that was taken on by US settlers in the 19th century. They attempted to guard against grass or forest fires by deliberately raising small controllable fires, which they called 'back-fires', to remove any flammable material in advance of a larger fire and so deprive it of fuel. "
http://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/fight-fire-with-fire.html
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Quote: Harridan @ March 13 2013, 9:29 PM GMT"King John, 1595:
'Be stirring as the time; be fire with fire;
Threaten the threatener and outface the brow
Of bragging horror'The Bard may have been the first to put the notion on paper, but he didn't coin the phrase 'fight fire with fire', that came much later.
The source of this phrase was actual fire-fighting that was taken on by US settlers in the 19th century. They attempted to guard against grass or forest fires by deliberately raising small controllable fires, which they called 'back-fires', to remove any flammable material in advance of a larger fire and so deprive it of fuel. "
http://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/fight-fire-with-fire.html
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