Bert also hints at selling hot chestnuts.

You're like children playing that game with hot chestnuts, tossing them from one to another and trying not to get burned!

Around the time of this celebration, it is common for street vendors to sell hot toasted chestnuts wrapped in newspaper.

Hobson took it as though snatching a hot chestnut out of the fire.

And the voices fading as the wires popped their sheathings like hot chestnuts.

And are those hot chestnuts that I see?

This version came from the fable of the monkey which used a cat's paw to draw hot chestnuts from a fire.

In winter, small street stands sell traditional Maroni (hot chestnuts) and potato fritters.

Does anyone want the last hot chestnut?

Your Americans wish me to pull their hot chestnuts from the fire.