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 Fire-eaters.Fire-ship. 
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E. Cobham Brewer 1810–1897. Dictionary of Phrase and Fable. 1898.
 
Fire-new.
 
Spick and span new (q.v.).   1
        “You should have accosted her; and with some excellent jests fire-new from the mint.”—Shakespeare: Twelfth Night, iii. 2.
 


 Fire-eaters.Fire-ship. 

 
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