the fat is in the fire

But for now, we have got to strike while the fat is in the fire.

"The fat is in the fire," I said to him.

Now all the fat is in the fire, and I don't know what is to happen.

After all, the fat is in the fire.

At the present minute, as far as I am concerned, the fat is in the fire."

"You'd better realise," he said, "that the fat is in the fire."

After the discovery, the fat is in the fire, as we used to say back when we still had cliches fit for children's ears.

If his wife suffers from gastritis, and is inclined to be of a hysterical temperament, the fat is in the fire."

'By God, sir,' he cried, addressing Jack, 'now the fat is in the fire!

"Yes," murmured Sir Lawrence, watching her, "'the fat is in the fire,' as old Forsyte would have said.