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<blockquote data-quote="donna723" data-source="post: 522361" data-attributes="member: 1883"><p>In the southern US, if someone spoke of <em>lighting a fire under someone's ass</em> that would mean to do something drastic to shock them out of complacency, to do something to get them up and moving when they don't want to. It wouldn't have anything to do with ambition. To Americans used to seeing outrageous things on television, the phrase "fire burning under his ass" would probably sound like a lead-in to a Preparation-H commercial!</p><p></p><p>You might refer to someone with a lot of ambition or motivation as "having a fire in them", but when you move the location of that fire to under their ass, that means to do something to shock them in to action.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="donna723, post: 522361, member: 1883"] In the southern US, if someone spoke of [I]lighting a fire under someone's ass[/I] that would mean to do something drastic to shock them out of complacency, to do something to get them up and moving when they don't want to. It wouldn't have anything to do with ambition. To Americans used to seeing outrageous things on television, the phrase "fire burning under his ass" would probably sound like a lead-in to a Preparation-H commercial! You might refer to someone with a lot of ambition or motivation as "having a fire in them", but when you move the location of that fire to under their ass, that means to do something to shock them in to action. [/QUOTE]
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