Meaning of warming pan | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A covered metal pan attached to a long handle, holding live coals and used to warm a bed.
2. A person put into a situation to hold it until another person can take over.
   dated, figuratively

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Examples

“Good Bardolfe / Put⟳ thy noſe betweene the ſheetes, and do the office of a warming pan.”

“[…] who speedily installed his Son […] into the office of Collector of Taxes, as a warming-pan, or locum tenens, till his Father-in-Law's twelvemonths of mock-heroic dignity had expired—or he should think⟳ proper to resume the Collectorship.”

“We used to call⟳ him in my parliamentary time W. P. Adams, in consequence of his being Warming Pan for a young fellow who was in his minority.”

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