What does the fat is in the fire mean?

the fat is in the fire

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Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.71 in modern English

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"If the dear old emotional, pig-headed, Rule-Britannia! public had got it that French spies were stalking through the land at this crisis, then, indeed, the fat would have been in the fire!"

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