boiling hot

boiling hot

Of an object, the weather, or a living creature, having an extremely hot temperature. The phrase is an often hyperbolic reference to the boiling point of liquids. I hate July in this part of the country, it's boiling hot down here. Your forehead is boiling hot! I'm taking you to see a doctor.
See also: boiling, hot
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.
See also:
  • fate worse than death
  • fate worse than death, a
  • a fate worse than death
  • since the beginning of time
  • fury
  • Hell has no fury like a (certain type of person) scorned
  • hell has no fury like a woman scorned
  • hell hath no fury
  • hell hath no fury like a (certain type of person) scorned
  • couldn't get elected dogcatcher
References in classic literature
In serving the rabbit she spilled a great lot of it, boiling hot, over my hand and wrist.
Two of the enemy's men entered the boat just where this fellow stood in the foresheets; he immediately saluted them with a ladle full of the stuff, boiling hot which so burned and scalded them, being half-naked that they roared out like bulls, and, enraged with the fire, leaped both into the sea.
The latter request did not tend to reassure his hearers, or to fill them with the most comfortable sensations; they complied with it, however, with the greatest expedition; and having handed him a bumper of brandy-and-water, nearly boiling hot, waited to hear what he might have to tell them.
IT TOOK a marathon effort on a boiling hot day, but it was worth it for Gary Whitehall and Pat Davies in the SPS Whitchurch League's Bank Holiday event.
Obviously, by "warm" I mean "boiling hot" as the resentment and abuse hurled at him by the crowd assembled outside Bute House helped to add even a few more degrees to an already roasting hot day.
A dad left his baby twins in a boiling hot car while he went to work and returned eight hours later to find them dead.
A DAD who left his baby twins in a boiling hot car while at work returned to find them dead.
Boiling hot and I can't open my windows and I daren't cook anything either.
Only last year, Kilauea, the most recent volcano to launch clouds and ash in the U.S., splashed fiery lava across Hawaiian neighborhoods and oozed boiling hot rocks and ash into the ocean.
It was when boiling hot oil entered the picture, that I realized all is not well with the world.
The alleged victim went on to say that the employer's family would pour boiling hot water on her and also burn her with a hot iron.
We would not have gotten away so lightly if our dog had been left in a boiling hot car.
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The challenge, which has been gaining momentum from last year on Twitter and YouTube, has millennials either pouring boiling hot water on their friends or family members as part of a prank or daring someone to drink hot water through a straw.
MONDAY, July 30, 2018 (HealthDay News) -- An Indianapolis teen suffered serious burns after his friends poured boiling hot water on him as part of fad called the "Hot Water Challenge."