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play with fire
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play with fireverb
To put oneself in a precarious situation with a high risk of getting harmed, particularly emotionally or financially.
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Play with Fire
Play with Fire is a song recorded by American singer Hilary Duff for her fourth studio album, Dignity (2007) and is the fourteenth and final track on the album. It was written by Duff, Kara DioGuardi, Rhett Lawrence and will.i.am and produced by Lawrence. The song was sent to mainstream radio in the United States on August 21, 2006, as the lead single from Dignity.
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Play with Fire
Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Play With Fire is a trade paperback from the UK collecting comic stories based on the Buffy television series.
Numerology
Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of play with fire in Chaldean Numerology is: 9
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of play with fire in Pythagorean Numerology is: 8
Examples of play with fire in a Sentence
Acting Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez:
We urge the Catalan independence movement not to play with fire, not to make the worst possible mistake, which is to look the other way if there are signs of violence, as we have unfortunately seen in recent weeks.
We urge the U.S. to fully recognize the gravity of the Taiwan question ... (and) not to play with fire on the question of Taiwan.
Wait, what happened to their higher calling? if Trump was damaging to the country in 2019, why wish that on the American people today? If the democracy was and is truly at stake … why play with fire? Their goading of Trump is reckless, disgustingly unpatriotic, and utterly desperate. And, like Trump, their greed and desire to be relevant supersedes what is best for America.
We would like to make it clear to the very small group of unscrupulous and violent criminals and the dirty forces behind them: Those who play with fire will perish by it, dont ever misjudge the situation and mistake our restraint for weakness.
It's not a threat, it's a reminder: Don't play with fire. Don't insult the Malays too much.
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