English Dictionary

warming pan

noun

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

She used a warming pan to heat up the bed before going to sleep.

意味（1）

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

Good / Bardolph, put thy face between his sheets, and do the / office of a warming-pan. Faith, he's very ill.

意味（2）

(figuratively, dated) 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.