You’re watching Lingo Phoenix’s word of the day for February 2.

National Groundhog Day

Today’s word is fire.

fire /faɪə $ faɪr/

fire-sale adjective

heavily discounted

fire-sale prices

“For example, while it was in the interest of mortgage lenders to keep families in their homes (in an already depressed market, foreclosed homes sold at fire-sale prices, resulting in big losses for the lender), mortgages were no longer held by a discrete set of banks that we could pressure into participating.”

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Promised Land (9781524763183)

Obama, Barack

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come under fire idiom

:to be shot at

The troops were coming under fire from the rear.

: to be criticized

The company has come under fire for using child labor overseas.

light a fire under (someone) idiom

US, informal

: to cause (someone) to move or work more quickly and effectively

I've never seen him work so hard. Someone must have lit a fire under him.