play with fire

Meaning

1. Oxford100% of films

   to act in a way that is not sensible and take dangerous risks

   This is why we don't play with fire.

   You animals ain't smart enough to play with fire.

In the movies · 4

• all the actual locations, but I realized at that point when I went to Poland for the first time that I was playing with fire.Spielberg2017
• ...to be a couple of eight-year-olds playing with fire.His Girl Friday1940
• This is why we don't play with fire.Frozen II2019
• I wouldn't play with fire, dude. You're kind of made of paper.Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse2023
• You animals ain't smart enough to play with fire.Easy Rider1969
• You're playing with fire, my man. I wanna see them green.The Taking of Pelham 1232009
• - Thank god rhoda was playing the piano. - The fire was where Leroy was.The Bad Seed1956

Learn it in full scenes

• Spielberg2017
  • Spielberg Hides the Shark
  • Spielberg Takes the Camera
  • Spielberg Gets His Universal Contract
• His Girl Friday1940
  • Hildy Tells Walter She's Remarrying
  • Hildy Quits the Post
  • Walter Meets Bruce Baldwin

From the same entry

• be under fire
• hang fire
• on fire
• a ball of fire
• a baptism of fire
• draw fire
• fight fire with fire
• out of the frying pan into the fire
• get on like a house on fire
• have several, irons in the fire
• no smoke without fire
• set the world on fire

More idioms

• on top of the world
• to herself
• at risk
• in action
• take personally
• stay the night
• the best bet
• get real
• think straight
• use your head
• what are we waiting for
• see coming