pull (one's) chestnuts out of the fire

To do a difficult, and often dangerous, task for someone else's benefit. David really pulled my chestnuts out of the fire that time he saved me from drowning. I can't believe my car broke down on this desolate road late at night—thank you so much for pulling my chestnuts out of the fire and picking me up!

Common Names:

Name	Pronounced	Usage
Gumarich	-	Ancient Germanic
Kamal (2)	-	Indian, Hindi, Marathi, Bengali, Gujarati, Punjabi, Tamil, Telugu, Kannada, Malayalam, Nepali
Reynard	RAY-nahrd, REN-ərd	English (Rare)
Kalidas	-	Indian, Hindi
Onisimu	-	Old Church Slavic
Stanislava	stah-nee-SLAH-vah (Russian)	Czech, Slovak, Bulgarian, Serbian, Croatian, Slovene, Russian, Medieval Slavic