1 annual salary

1 monthly income (in kind)

1 to raise salary

1 to receive one's regular salary (while on vacation, study leave etc)

2 paid (leave)

3 on full pay

1 to owe wages

2 back pay

3 wages arrears

1 lit. to put a fire under a pile of firewood (idiom)

2 fig. hidden danger

3 imminent danger

1 lit. to carry firewood to put out a fire (idiom); fig. to make a problem worse by inappropriate action

1 add firewood to put out the flames (idiom); fig. ill-advised action that only makes the problem worse

2 to add fuel to the fire

1 lit. to bend the chimney and remove the firewood (to prevent fire) (idiom)

2 fig. to take preventive measures

1 lit. a cup of water on a burning cart of firewood (idiom); fig. an utterly inadequate measure