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Can a man take fire in his bosom and his clothes not be burned? Can one go upon hot coals, and his feet not be burned?
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If thine enemy behungry, give him bread to eat; and if he be thirsty, give him water to drink: For thou shalt heap coals of fire upon his head, and the L shall reward thee.

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— ORDProverbs 25:21-2.

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   Love isstrong as death; jealousy is cruel as the grave: the coals thereof are coals of fire, which hath a most vehement flame. Many waters cannot quench love, neither can the floods drown it: if a man would give all the substance of his house for love, it would utterly be contemned.

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— Song of Solomon 8:6-7.

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Like piles of dry wood with red-hot coals underneath.

Henry Cisneros

— 1993  Of US cities, rife with racial tension. In US News and World Report,19  Apr.

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Hey, Johnnie Cope, are ye wauking yet? Or are your drums a-beating yet? If ye were wauking I wad wait To gang to the coals i' the morning.

Adam Skirving

— 1745  'Johnnie Cope', chorus (commemorating the Battle of Australian poet and journalist. In1924 he published Thief of  the Moon    and   in   1926    Earth-Visitors.    Darlinghurst    Nights    and Morning  Glories  (1933)  celebrates  'The  Cross',  the  bohemian district  of  Sydney  where  he  lived for  most  of  his  life.  His  verse was    collected    in    One    Hundred    Poems:   1919-1939    (1944, reissued  as  Poems,  1957),  and  his  prose  in   Bread  and  Wine (1970).

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I said to your predecessor: 'You know what they're all saying, no more coals to Newcastle, no more Hoares to Paris.' The fellow didn't even laugh.


— Said to Anthony Eden on 23 December 1935 following the furore that erupted over the Hoare-Laval Pact.
— Quoted in Earl of Avon, Facing the Dictators (1962) pt.2 ch.1

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I do not want to heap coals of fire on anyone's head, but I would like to advise those who keep the living thought of the dead hidden away in cardboard boxes, to pass on as quickly as possibly such explosive material, whose only legitimate heir is the whole world, that is to say, my neighbor.

pierre schaeffer

— The Old Man and His Movements (Times Press, 1964)

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Carrying coals to Newcastle.


— Meaning: A pointless exercise. An example would be customers already having enough of what you are selling at a market fair.
— Source for meaning: "Newcastle upon Tyne", Encyclopædia Britannica
— Whiting, Bartlett Jere (1977). Early American Proverbs and Proverbial Phrases. Harvard University Press. p. 76. 

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I am walking over hot coals suspended over a deep pit at the bottom of which are a large number of vipers baring their fangs.

john major

— Nicholas Wood and Michael Prescott, "Major threatens general election if he fails to win Maastricht vote", Sunday Times, 25 October 1992.

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If thine enemy hunger, feed him; if he thirst, give him drink: for in so doing thou shalt heap coals of fire on his head.


— Romans, XII. 20 (Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations)

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Heap coals of fire upon his head.


— Proverbs, XXV. 22. (Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations)

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O war! thou son of hell, Whom angry heavens do make their minister, Throw in the frozen bosoms of our part Hot coals of vengeance! Let no soldier fly. He that is truly dedicate to war Hath no self-love, nor he that loves himself, Hath not essentially but by circumstance The name of valour.


— Act V, scene 2, line 33.

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