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It is always good When a man has two irons in the fire.
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It is always good When a man has two irons in the fire.
Beaumont, Francis and Fletcher,John— 1608 The Faithful Friends, act1.
Would you please publish the enclosed manuscript or return it without delay, as I have other irons in the fire.
elinor glyn— A covering note sent with a manuscript submission, which was supposedly returned with the answer, "Put this with your other irons." The same story had much earlier been told about Dr. Johnson and Mrs. Piozzi in Kate Sanborn Home Pictures of English Poets (New York: Appleton, 1869) p. 215.
Don't have too many irons in the fire.
— Mieder, Wolfgang; Kingsbury, Stewart A.; Harder, Kelsie B. (1992). A Dictionary of American proverbs. pp. 710. , p. 588
Put in their hands thy bruising irons of wrath, That they may crush down with heavy fall The usurping helmets of our adversaries.
— Act V, scene 3, line 110.
It is always good When a man has two irons in the fire.
— Beaumont and Fletcher, The Faithful Friends (date uncertain; registered June 29, 1660), Act I, scene 2.
