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Where there's smoke, there's fire.
When there is an indication or sign of something bad, usually the indication is correct.
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"I had seen enough smoke to suggest there was fire," he wrote.
Alpha asked her husband, "The policeman said there was fire?" and the friends' and colleagues' imaginations went into action to dim or scramble or in some way unthink the flames in which Jimmy — this person they knew — was burning.
Currently reader in creative writing at the Seamus Heaney Centre for Poetry at Queens University in Belfast, her five collections are There Was Fire in Vancouver (1996), Between Here and There (2002), The State of the Prisons (2005), Through the Square Window (2009) and Parallax (2013), all published by Carcanet Press.
"There was fire everywhere.
There was fire immediately".
And make no mistake, there was fire.
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There is smoke and there is fire – but there is no fear.
Employees who break the rules there are fired.
There was firing right behind me.
"There was firing coming from there before the air strike.
"Then there is fire everywhere.
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