hissing hot | Idiomator

Meaning: (idiomatic,dated)Veryhot.c.1597(date written),William Shakespeare, “The Merry Wiues of Windsor”, inMr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies[…](First Folio), London:[…]Isaac Iaggard, andEd[ward]Blount, published1623,→OCLC,[Act III, scene v]:And in the height of this bath, when I was more than half stewed in grease, like a Dutch dish, to be thrown into the Thames, and cooled, glowing hot, in that surge, like a horse-shoe; think of that,—hissing hot,—think of that, Master Brook.1792,Hannah Cowley,A Day in Turkey: or, The Russian Slaves, London: G.G.J. & J. Robinson, Act II, p. 30,[1][…]ahissing hotfever laid hold of him; and the doctors, with all their rank and file of phials and bolusses, could hardly drive him out of his veins.1843December 19,Charles Dickens, “(please specify the page number)”, inA Christmas Carol. In Prose. Being a Ghost Story of Christmas, London:Chapman & Hall,[…],→OCLC:Mrs. Cratchit made the gravy (ready beforehand in a little saucepan)hissing hot[…]1904,Justin Huntly McCarthy, chapter 1, inThe Lady of Loyalty House‎[2], New York: Harper, page10:When a man has lived in suchhissing hotplaces that he is fain to spend his life under cover, he is glad to keep abroad in this green English sweetness.1954,Dylan Thomas,Under Milk Wood[…]‎[3], New York: New Directions,page35:Mrs Willy Nilly full of tea to her double-chinned brim broods and bubbles over her coven of kettles on thehissing hotrange always ready to steam open the mail.

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