warming pan

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim A covered metal pan attached to a long handle, holding live coals and used to warm a bed.

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

2. isim A person put into a situation to hold it until another person can take over.

   “[…] 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.”