Chestnuts roasting
Meaning: This means that chestnuts are being cooked over an open flame, which gives them a delicious, roasted flavor.
Choice of Words: Chestnuts are a type of nut that are often roasted and eaten during the fall and winter months. Roasting means to cook something, like chestnuts, by exposing it to dry heat. In this case, the sentence is describing the action of cooking chestnuts over an open flame.
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