the fat is in the fire

informal

Definition

› said when something has been said or done that will cause a lot of troubleArguing and disagreeing

(Definition of the fat is in the fire from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)

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adversarial adjective
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