| 单词 | hot to trot |
| 释义 | > as lemmashot to trot Phrases P1. In (chiefly hyperbolical) similative comparisons, as hot as hell, hotter than hell, hot as fire, etc. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > properties of materials > temperature > heat > [adjective] > having or communicating much heat > very wall-hotc1000 walm-hotOE hot as hellOE welling?a1200 welling hota1400 aestuant?1440 burning1484 scalding?a1513 broiling1555 roasting1567 walming hot1601 boiling hot1607 baking1656 stewing-hot1711 piping1823 grilling1839 seething1848 white-hot1855 stewing1856 incandescent1859 swithering1895 boiling1930 OE Ælfric Lives of Saints (Julius) (1881) I. 250 Þær com heofonlic leoht to þam halgum martyrum, swa hat swa sunne scinende on sumere. a1375 (c1350) William of Palerne (1867) 908 (MED) Sum-time it [sc. pain] hentis me wiþ hete as hot as ani fure, but quicliche so kene a cold comes þer-after. a1470 T. Malory Morte Darthur (Winch. Coll. 13) (1990) II. 792 The chambir that was as hote as ony styew. 1540 J. Palsgrave tr. G. Gnapheus Comedye of Acolastus iii. ii. sig. Oiiv Is he in loue with me as hote as a toste or not? 1593 W. Shakespeare Venus & Adonis sig. Bv She red, and hot, as coles of glowing fier, He red for shame, but frostie in desier. View more context for this quotation 1618 J. Vicars Prospectiue Glasse sig. E3v Heau'ns Psalmodicall harmonious Quire Of Saints and Angels zealous, hot as fire. 1694 T. D'Urfey Comical Hist. Don Quixote: Pt. 2nd v. ii. 60 'Twas Pride, hot as Hell, That first made me Rebell. 1696 D. Manley Royal Mischief iv. i. 31 Were she not hotter than the Flames of Hell. 1711 W. King et al. Vindic. Sacheverell 98 Thou art as hot as a Glass-house. 1750 J. Wesley Let. to Revd. Mr. Baily 9 He would make her House ‘hotter than Hell-fire’. 1762 R. Lloyd Poems 42 I blow to cool it, cries the Clown, That I may get the liquor down: For though I grant, you've made it well, You've boil'd it, sir, as hot as hell. 1849 N. Kingsley Diary (1914) 19 Hot as blazes—glad to get under awnings. 1889 J. S. Farmer Americanisms 293/2 Hot as the Devil's kitchen. 1912 Dial. Notes 3 579 Hot as hammered hell. 1934 G. Ross Tips on Tables 282 A special sauce that is hotter than Hades. 1935 A. J. Pollock Underworld Speaks 58/2 Hot as a 45, wanted by the police. 1950 L. G. Miller Story of Ernie Pyle xxiv. 242 We stopped at a jungle field for lunch. It was hotter than hell. 2003 W. Brandt Bk. of Film of Story of my Life x. 168 We deplane directly onto the tarmac. It's about five in the afternoon and it's as hot as an oven. P2. hot and cold. ΘΚΠ the world > existence and causation > existence > state or condition > circumstance or circumstances > circumstance [phrase] > in all or any case or circumstances in nesh and hardc1175 still and louda1250 loud and still1300 for nesh or hard?a1400 hot and coldc1400 in all essays1669 round or rattlea1670 c1400 (?c1390) Sir Gawain & Green Knight (1940) l. 1844 Euer in hot & colde To be your trwe seruaunt. c1450 in F. J. Furnivall Hymns to Virgin & Christ (1867) 46 (MED) Neiþer in hoot ne coolde, I may not make him stumble. 1650 N. Ward Discolliminium 30 He that pleadeth for a generall..Toleration, hot and cold, I meane constantly and deliberately..shall finde himselfe a very Atheist. a1811 R. Cumberland False Demetrius iv, in Wks. (1813) II. 392 I [have] stuck to this desperate rover, Wet and dry, hot and cold, the world over. 1849 G. Lippard Man with Mask xxi. 57 Rich Man! Rich because others have toiled by night and day, in hot and cold. b. Being or doing different or opposite things by turns; inconsistent, vacillating. In later use frequently as the complement to a verb; cf. to blow hot and cold at blow v.1 2b. to run hot and cold: to behave erratically or inconsistently, to vacillate. ΚΠ 1583 R. Greene Mamillia i. f. 29 We may see the flitring of mens fancy, and the ficklenes of their fayth..so their loue is hotte and cold euery houre. 1605 B. Jonson Sejanus i. sig. Bv Be hot, and cold with him; change euery moode, Habit, and garbe, as often as he varies. View more context for this quotation 1770 J. Armstrong Forced Marriage ii. iii. 50 Where friendship is so ticklish The sooner done the better. I'm heart-sick Of hot and cold friends. 1854 Rambler Apr. 308 One story is told to one subscriber, and another to another... Its inevitable consequence must have been the disgust of the readers of so hot-and-cold a periodical. 1897 Chicago Sunday Tribune 6 June 15/2 (heading) Gas keeps 'em guessing. Legislative rumors make Wall Street run hot and cold. 1939 Bee (Danville, Va.) 9 Feb. b4/2 Duke's defending champions..have run hot and cold all season. 1963 Times 3 Dec. 6/6 It looks as if the Indonesian Government was once more playing hot and cold. 1984 A. Smith in G. Ursell More Sask. Gold i. vii. 71 Michael Povey played second base on both our baseball and softball teams this spring, has a sure glove, is hot and cold with the bat. 1990 M. S. Peck Bed by Window xiii. 225 He certainly had the capacity to make her wax hot and cold in response to him. 2004 P. Biskind Down & Dirty Pictures vi. 204 [He] was well known for running hot and cold on people, and the composition of his inner circle..was chronically in flux. c. to go (all) hot and cold and variants: to experience alternate sensations of heat and cold, as from fear, shock, or embarrassment; (also in weakened use) to feel uneasy, embarrassed, etc. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > expectation > surprise, unexpectedness > happen or move unexpectedly [verb (intransitive)] > feel surprised to think wonder (also ferly)lOE to have wondera1400 admirec1429 startle1562 to think (it) strange of (or concerning)1585 to come short?1611 strange1639 to think (it) much1669 admirize1702 to go (all) hot and cold1845 to take to1862 surprise1943 not to know (or to wonder) what hit one1961 1845 A. Marsh Mount Sorel I. xiii. 228 I went hot and cold as he said this, and remembered the faint shriek I had heard. 1888 Lady D. Hardy Dangerous Exper. III. iv. 84 I trembled and went hot and cold. 1928 Daily Mail 3 Aug. 10/6 The figures given..as to my earnings..made me go all hot and cold—I wonder what I can have done with all that money! 1952 Musical Times 93 35 Then you go ‘hot and cold all over’ and wish you could slink out of the hall without being seen or recognized. 1973 A. Price October Men v. 64 His wife had said..that she had gone ‘all hot and cold’ after nearly being run over. 1999 New Yorker 2 Aug. 40/1 I still go hot and cold when I think of that moment. d. (A supply of) hot and cold running water (for a washbasin or bath, in accommodation, etc.). ΘΚΠ the world > matter > liquid > water > [noun] > hot and cold hot and cold1877 1877 Times 24 July 14/1 (advt.) Two floors, containing seven bed and dressing rooms, bath room fitted hot and cold, three reception rooms. 1914 J. M. Barrie Admirable Crichton iii. 130 He's working out that plan for laying on hot and cold. 1944 A. Thirkell Headmistress i. 23 ‘There is a basin with hot and cold,’ she said. 2006 J. A. Oliver Come away with Me 127 The..room had..a wash-basin with hot and cold and nothing else. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > manner of action > rapidity or speed of action or operation > [adjective] > acting with haste > in a hurry or hastening eagerly hastya1387 battea1475 hastening1545 hot on (also of, in, upon) the spur1577 the world > action or operation > manner of action > rapidity or speed of action or operation > with rapid action [phrase] > in haste or in a hurry > with undue or rash haste on headc1425 hand over heada1500 in haste?1518 hot on (also of, in, upon) the spur1577 1577 J. Grange Golden Aphroditis sig. Eiv He mounted vpon his bayarde gray, making a poste iorney (being hotte on the spurre). 1601 J. Weever Mirror of Martyrs sig. C5 v All the Armie, ventrous, valorous, bold, Hote on the spur. 1633 T. Adams Comm. 2 Peter iii. xviii. 1566 There is a preposterous zeale, too hote on the spurre. 1652 J. Shirley Doubtful Heir v. 62 Speed, an you be so hot o' th' spur. 1699 W. Winstanley Essex Champion ix. 136 He being hot upon the spur will admit of no delay. 1829 W. Irving Chron. Conquest Granada xxix. 157 If you are as cool in the head, as you are hot in the spur, you may bear off your spoils. 1838 J. G. Grant Rufus I. i. 4 They..were hot upon the spur to join King Stephen. P4. too hot to hold (a person): (of a place) not safe or pleasant for (a person) to remain in, owing to persecution, repercussions from past behaviour, etc. Cf. sense A. 9b. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > harm or detriment > danger > there is danger in a course of action [phrase] > too dangerous for (a person) too hot to hold (a person)1636 1636 W. Sampson Vow Breaker iv. i. sig. G3 The Towne I see was too hot to hold thee. 1648 M. Nedham Plea for King Epist. sig. Aij They will make your House too hot to hold you. 1736 H. Fielding Pasquin ii. 24 I'll make the House too hot to hold you. 1851 H. Mayhew London Labour I. 416/2 Her husband was on the pad in the country, as London was too hot to hold him. 1870 C. M. Yonge Cameos xcviii, in Monthly Packet Jan. 14 She..made St. Albans too hot to hold her. 1901 D. B. Hall & A. Osborne Sunshine & Surf 38 A hurried departure..of gentlemen who find these countries too hot to hold them. 1997 J. Pastor Land & Econ. in Anc. Palestine iv. 42 At first Jerusalem was too hot to hold him, but with the passing of time, and the king, he was able to renew his contacts. P5. colloquial. In various phrases indicating a severe or angry reprimand, scolding, attack, etc., as to give it (a person) hot, to let (a person) have it hot, to get (also catch) it hot, etc. Cf. give v. Phrases 1c(a), have v. Phrases 1a(a), get v. Phrases 2d(a)(i). ΚΠ 1679 tr. Trag. Hist. Jetzer 24 St. Catherine..gave him as hot as he brought. 1826 W. Scott Jrnl. 26 Feb. (1939) 116 I wad give it them hot! 1877 W. H. Thomson Five Years' Penal Servitude iv. 287 He ‘got it hot’ for such a crime. 1891 ‘L. Malet’ Wages of Sin II. 102 If she catches him she'll let him have it hot. 1898 Westm. Gaz. 14 Jan. 4/3 You will get it hot before you are done. 1922 N. Coward Down with Whole Darn Lot! in Compl. Lyrics (1998) 38/2 Down with the London stage! We'll let them have it hot. If Laurillard or Sachs resists We'll kill them both as Royalists. 1929 Times 8 Feb. 10/4 The secretaries at home and abroad ‘caught it hot’ when a badly written dispatch came into his hands. 2004 A. Hollinghurst Line of Beauty v. 118 Gerald shook his head in the savour of triumph. ‘I let him have it hot.’ P6. a. hot on the trail (also scent) of and variants: in close pursuit of; very near to tracking down or capturing. Cf. sense A. 11a. ΚΠ 1624 R. Montagu Immediate Addresse 8 The Dogges came vp hot vpon the scent:..the Foxe was caught and torne in pieces. 1679 Bp. G. Burnet Hist. Reformation I. iii. 221 Bonner, who was hot on the scent of Preferment, added a Preface. 1702 J. Toland Vindicius Liberius 77 Since they were so hot on the Scent of pernitious Books, I have Reason to ask.., Why such a Dedication was not Solemn. 1823 London Mag. Mar. 248 They are hot upon her trail. 1829 G. Griffin in Lit. Souvenir 89 These English dogs have worried us from our hold, and are still hot upon our scent. 1897 Evening Herald (Syracuse, N.Y.) 15 Sept. (Fourth ed.) 1/6 When the..police and Albany detectives were hot on the trail of Warner, the officers were also looking for a woman. 1906 W. Woods Billy the Kid iv, in America's Lost Plays VIII. 242 Me own life ain't none too safe. They're hot on our trail. 1992 Herald (Glasgow) (Nexis) 21 Jan. 37 England were hot on the scent of their first Test victory in New Zealand for 14 years. 2007 Science 2 Mar. 1211/2 Researchers are hot on the trail of..small molecule drugs that reactivate the p53 protein. b. hot on the heels of and variants: in close pursuit of; swiftly following. Cf. heel n.1 and int. Phrases 1a(a). ΚΠ 1835 W. G. Simms Partisan I. viii. 96 The sound had something supernatural and chilling in it; and the instinct of each, but a moment before so hot upon the heels of the outlaw, was now to regain his starting-place. 1878 Harper's Mag. Jan. 213/1 Hot on his heels came Cromwell's Puritans to the number of sixty. 1938 Life 6 June 22/3 General Cedillo was reported in full flight through the bush, with Federal troops hot on his heels. 1956 Times 13 Feb. 8/1 Hot on the heels of Colonel Nasser's ‘substantial measure of agreement’ with the World Bank came the sobering announcement. 2005 Sunday Tel. (Sydney) 17 July (Queensland ed.) 30 Flash races from the throne room with Blaze hot on his heels! P7. hot and hot: (of a number of dishes of meat, etc.) served in succession as soon as cooked; (also) food served in this way. Also figurative. Now rare. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > serving food > [adverb] > served in specific way hot and hot1710 on the side1883 1710 E. Ward Nuptial Dialogues & Deb. II. v. 86 One Spoonful more of Greens, my Dear, Eat freely, Love, and never fear..I know you like a Bit by th' by, That's hot and hot, as well as I. 1771 T. Smollett Humphry Clinker III. 200 I give you them like a beef-steak at Dolly's, hot and hot. 1842 Ld. Tennyson Will Waterproof's Monologue in Poems (new ed.) II. 193 Thy care is, under polish'd tins, To serve the hot-and-hot. 1846 C. Dickens Dombey & Son (1848) viii. 73 Mutton-chops, which were brought in hot and hot, between two plates. 1865 G. A. Sala My Diary in Amer. I. 409 Those glorious mutton chops..which we order ‘hot and hot to follow’. 1909 T. H. Lewin Lewin Lett. I. ii. 187 The dinner uniformly consisted of beefsteaks, followed by a second course of Welsh rare-bits, cooked hot and hot. 1937 V. D. Scudder On Journey ii. ii. 121 It was fun..to teach G.B.S. [i.e. the books of George Bernard Shaw] hot-and-hot from the griddle. 1946 Times 8 Jan. 5/4 We are given just time to digest one meal before another still more exciting is served hot-and-hot. P8. hot off (also from) the press and variants: just printed, newly published; (hence) new, novel. Cf. sense A. 10b. ΘΚΠ society > communication > printing > [adverb] > newly printed hot off (also from) the press1804 the world > time > relative time > the future or time to come > newness or novelty > new [phrase] piping hot?1589 fresh (also new) off the irons1683 hot off (also from) the press1804 1804 J. Minshull Merry Dames ii. 18 Here is my pamphlet hot from the press. 1892 J. Davidson tr. C.-L. de S. de Montesquieu Persian Lett. II. cix. 71 They..never speak except of works hot from the press. 1910 S. P. Wilson Chicago by Gas Light 43 It is no uncommon sight to see the place crowded with men and women waiting for the ‘racing form’ to appear hot from the printing press. 1918 Puck (N.Y.) Mar. 83/3 Lippincott's new ones just hot off the presses this morning. 1955 Times 19 Aug. 2/5 But it is for novelties, hot from the press or the copyist's desk, that discontent is calling. 2005 Sugar May 90/2 The news that these thoroughbred A-listers exist isn't exactly hot off the press. P9. hot and heavy (cf. hot and strong at Phrases 11). a. Intense, relentless; passionate. Frequently as complement to a verb. ΚΠ 1822 R. H. Dana Idle Man I. 53 ‘Let it come hot and heavy.’ And his eye brightened and spirits rose, the closer and harder the fight became. 1841 H. J. Mercier & W. Gallop Life in Man-of-War 9 The rough and tempestuous weather..came on as our tars express it, ‘hot and heavy’, though cold and heavy would have been a more appropriate expression. 1861 H. A. Jacobs Incidents Life Slave Girl x. 88 Her reproaches fell so hot and heavy, that they left me no chance to answer. 1974 B. Hoddeson Porn People ii. 29/2 This girl and I, who were going hot and heavy. 1994 S. Matheson Flying Frontiers i. 18 Air Canada had a seven-week ground school course, hot and heavy... If you couldn't keep out, you were out the door. b. colloquial. In various phrases indicating a severe or angry reprimand, attack, etc.; see Phrases 5. ΚΠ 1834 W. A. Caruthers Kentuckian in N.Y. I. xvii. 189 He doesn't honey it up to 'em, and mince his words—he lets it down upon 'em hot and heavy. 1839 J. L. Motley Morton's Hope II. v. i. 178 The British line gave way this time, and then they got it hot and heavy I tell you. 1884 A. Daly Pique iv. iii. 86 Take my pistol. If the worst comes to the worst before I come back, give it to them hot and heavy. 1922 J. Joyce Ulysses ii. 155 If a fellow gave them trouble being lagged they let him have it hot and heavy in the bridewell. 1940 H. B. Hough Country Editor xxx. 234 He stopped at her house and she gave him, hot and heavy, the exquisitely turned phrases she had been saving up for the company. 2007 Guardian (Nexis) 13 Feb. 10 Jamie's going in to give it to them, hot and heavy. P10. too hot to handle: too difficult to control, manage, or deal with adequately (in early use frequently in Baseball, of a ball); too risky or provocative.The influence of other senses is evident in several quots. Cf. quots. 1885, 1917 with sense A. 9d, quot. 1959 with sense A. 8c, and quot. 1969 with sense A. 9e and handle v.1 9. ΚΠ 1822 A. Cunningham Sir Marmaduke Maxwell v. i. 49 My Lord Protector has resigned his sword; 'Twas much too hot to handle. 1885 N.Y. Times 3 Sept. 2 Caskins went to base on balls, was advanced on Kirby's hit to Crane, which proved too hot to handle, and scored on Dunlap's sacrifice to McQuery. 1917 N.Y. Tribune 7 June 11/1 ‘The last shot from the American ship’, says a bulletin from the State Department, ‘apparently was a clean hit.’ The German official scorers called it an error; but the American o.s., because it was too hot to handle, called it a clean hit. No runs. 1959 Daily Mail 17 Oct. 3/1 All in true Mae West tradition. Said a Columbia Broadcasting System spokesman sorrowfully: ‘Some of her answers when the show was recorded were just too hot to handle.’ 1969 Times 4 July 3/8 Many stolen works of art have been recovered recently..which suggests that thieves are finding them too hot to handle. 1992 Washington Post (National ed.) 19 Oct. 31/1 More money for the stalled savings and loan cleanup was too hot to handle in an election year. 2000 C. A. Ruud in R. J. Goldstein War for Public Mind vii. 253 When censors found a writer or editor too hot to handle, they would send his material up the line, where it might even reach the tsar. P11. hot and strong (cf. hot and heavy at Phrases 9). a. Intense, passionate. Frequently as complement to a verb. ΚΠ 1843 H. R. Schoolcraft Alhalla 46 A thousand warriors served me well, And..Play'd hot and strong the warrior's part. 1880 E. W. Hamilton Diary 25 July (1972) I. 27 Wilfrid Blunt goes in ‘hot and strong’ for making the Province a sort of independence. 1881 C. E. L. Riddell Senior Partner II. xi. 221 Hot and strong was the reply which rose to Robert's lips, but he bit it back. 1952 Times 24 Apr. 6/5 Tchaikovsky's fourth symphony came over hot and strong. 1988 Courier-Mail (Brisbane) (Nexis) 3 Oct. The arguments came hot and strong. b. colloquial. In various phrases indicating a severe or angry reprimand, attack, etc.; see Phrases 5. ΚΠ 1861 Dublin Univ. Mag. June 747/2 As for Paolo Sarpi, he has it hot and strong; he is—‘Heretical and servile’. 1872 T. Hardy Under Greenwood Tree I. ii. iv. 164 It is thought that you are going to get it hot and strong! 1938 A. G. Macdonell Autobiogr. of Cad ii. 14 Jedediah never spent a penny on the estate unless he was legally compelled to—and then the man who legally compelled him got it hot and strong in double quick time. 2003 Independent on Sunday (Nexis) 8 June 4 You will want to give it to them hot and strong because their stupidity is a moral flaw. P12. to run hot: (a) (of a (part of a) machine) to become hot during operation; (b) U.S. colloquial (now rare) to become angry. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > anger > [verb (intransitive)] > become angry wrethec900 wrothc975 abelghec1300 to move one's blood (also mood)c1330 to peck moodc1330 gremec1460 to take firea1513 fumec1522 sourdc1540 spitec1560 to set up the heckle1601 fire1604 exasperate1659 to fire up1779 to flash up1822 to get one's dander up1831 to fly (occasionally jump, etc.) off (at) the handle1832 to have (also get) one's monkey up1833 to cut up rough, rusty, savage1837 rile1837 to go off the handle1839 to flare up1840 to set one's back up1845 to run hot1855 to wax up1859 to get one's rag out1862 blow1871 to get (also have) the pricker1871 to turn up rough1872 to get the needle1874 to blaze up1878 to get wet1898 spunk1898 to see red1901 to go crook1911 to get ignorant1913 to hit the ceiling1914 to hit the roof1921 to blow one's top1928 to lose one's rag1928 to lose one's haira1930 to go up in smoke1933 hackle1935 to have, get a cob on1937 to pop (also blow) one's cork1938 to go hostile1941 to go sparec1942 to do one's bun1944 to lose one's wool1944 to blow one's stack1947 to go (also do) one's (also a) dingerc1950 rear1953 to get on ignorant1956 to go through the roof1958 to keep (also blow, lose) one's cool1964 to lose ita1969 to blow a gasket1975 to throw a wobbler1985 1855 Jrnl. Agric. Jan. 558 The journals should be kept well oiled, so as never to run hot. 1884 Eng. Mech. 24 Oct. 184/1 I hear that the trailing axle of this engine is running hot. 1911 Tribune (Cedar Rapids, Iowa) 2 June 5/3 They oiled several motors with disinfectant dope. No wonder they ran hot. 1941 Sun (Baltimore) 29 July 10/7 I seen him reading across the table and called him down. He run hot and so I told him to git his money. 1976 K. Benton Single Monstrous Act v. 166 The Detective Chief Superintendent's waiting for us, and beginning to run hot, too. He's got a lot on his mind. 2009 Thomasville (Georgia) Times-Enterprise (Nexis) 24 July The vehicle..replaces a 1999 van that ran hot if left running. P13. colloquial (originally U.S.). hot under the collar and variants: angry, resentful; agitated. Chiefly in to get hot under the collar. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > anger > [adjective] irrec825 gramec893 wemodc897 wrothc950 bolghenc1000 gramelyc1000 hotOE on fireOE brathc1175 moodyc1175 to-bollenc1175 wrethfulc1175 wraw?c1225 agrameda1300 wrathfula1300 agremedc1300 hastivec1300 irousa1340 wretheda1340 aniredc1350 felonc1374 angryc1380 upreareda1382 jealous1382 crousea1400 grieveda1400 irefula1400 mada1400 teena1400 wraweda1400 wretthy14.. angryc1405 errevousa1420 wrothy1422 angereda1425 passionatec1425 fumous1430 tangylc1440 heavy1452 fire angry1490 wrothsomea1529 angerful?1533 wrothful?1534 wrath1535 provoked1538 warm1547 vibrant1575 chauffe1582 fuming1582 enfeloned1596 incensed1597 choleric1598 inflameda1600 raiseda1600 exasperate1601 angried1609 exasperated1611 dispassionate1635 bristlinga1639 peltish1648 sultry1671 on (also upon) the high ropes (also rope)1672 nangry1681 ugly1687 sorea1694 glimflashy1699 enraged1732 spunky1809 cholerous1822 kwaai1827 wrathy1828 angersome1834 outraged1836 irate1838 vex1843 raring1845 waxy1853 stiff1856 scotty1867 bristly1872 hot under the collar1879 black angry1894 spitfire1894 passionful1901 ignorant1913 hairy1914 snaky1919 steamed1923 uptight1934 broigus1937 lemony1941 ripped1941 pissed1943 crooked1945 teed off1955 ticked off1959 ripe1966 torqued1967 bummed1970 1879 Globe (Atchison, Kansas) 14 Aug. I was beginning to get hot under the collar. His effrontery was positively astounding. 1886 Sporting News 17 May 1/2 The boys are hot in the collar over the treatment received at the hands of the..audience. 1918 E. Pound Let. 4 June (1971) 138 After years of this sort of puling imbecility one gets hot under the collar and is perhaps carried to an extreme. 1941 F. Reinfeld Keres' Best Games of Chess 43/2 I suddenly began to go hot under the collar as I noticed the powerful move. 1970 J. Porter Dover strikes Again i. 7 Twenty-five years in the police had not tarnished Superintendent Underbarrow's basic serenity... He made it a point of honour never to get hot around the collar about anything. 2000 L. McTaggart Being Catholic Today i. 6 Do you get hot under the collar about vacuous musical moanings in church, or fired up at the thought of young people living ‘in sin’? P14. hot and bothered: agitated, flustered, uncomfortable. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > excitement > nervous excitement > be in state of nervous excitement [phrase] hot and bothered1899 to have ants in one's pants1930 1899 S. Crane Active Service 297 Coke looked hot and bothered, as if he could have more than half wanted to retract his visit. 1921 M. Arlen Romantic Lady iv. v. 161 I was getting very hot and bothered about the whole thing. 1958 Listener 23 Oct. 649/2 Then she emerged, hot and bothered, glasses half down her nose. 1961 J. Barlow Term of Trial i. ii. 22 Most of the teachers..urged silence in hot-and-bothered threats. 2003 Sunday Mail (Brisbane) 8 June 27/1 Beachgoers in Queensland's southeast may be relaxed about the idea of topless sunbathing, but up north some of the locals are getting hot and bothered about it. P15. colloquial (now chiefly Australian). a bit hot: (of behaviour, an action, etc.) somewhat unreasonable or excessive. Cf. red-hot adj. 4. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > lack of understanding > lack of reason, irrationality > [adjective] > not based on reason hoflesc1175 unreasonablec1384 fantastica1387 disreasonablec1550 reasonless1556 idle1590 alogical1603 groundless1620 irrational1641 unreasonal1650 adoxal1652 irrationable1657 unreasoning1682 untoward1682 unfaceablea1825 aberrational1837 non-rational1859 irrationalistic1910 a bit hot1925 arational1935 1925 Times 30 Sept. 9/5 When anyone is knocked about you always come and dig me up... I don't know anything about it. This is a bit hot. 1931 T. R. G. Lyell Slang, Phrase & Idiom Colloq. Eng. 410 To dismiss the lad just because he forgot to post a letter is a bit hot. 1946 K. Tennant Lost Haven (1947) xiii. 204 She has to be humoured although I do think it's a bit hot her boy friend calling just as if she owned the place. 1999 L. Laube Bound for Vietnam iii. 35 Steak and eggs, 480 yuan. That's a bit hot! P16. North American. Horse Racing. to walk (also occasionally cool out) hots: to lead a horse at walking pace in order to let it cool down after strenuous exercise. Cf. hot walker n. at Compounds 3. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > keeping or management of horses > [verb (transitive)] > exercise a horse > walk after exercise to walk (also occasionally cool out) hots1934 1934 Washington Post 25 Mar. 14/5 They put him to work walking ‘hots’ and cleaning out stables. 1939 Sat. Evening Post 1 Apr. 33 ‘Cooling out hots’..means walking horses around the barn until there is no fear they will stiffen. 1976 New Yorker 29 Mar. 109/2 He got an after-school job at a ranch, mucking out stalls and ‘walking hots’, as the chore of cooling out horses who have just worked or raced is called. 2007 J. Christgau Gambler & Bug Boy xx. 208 Albert walked hots, mucked stalls, and galloped horses at dawn. P17. colloquial (originally U.S.). hot to trot. a. Ready and willing, eager; esp. eager for sexual activity. ΚΠ 1950 in R. Tomedi No Bugles, No Drums (1993) xix. Plate 2 (photograph of U.S. Army company sign) Hot to trot 2d B. 7th Reg. Fox co. 1978 Washington Post (Nexis) 24 Apr. b1 We're supposed to respect Valerie because she isn't quite as hot to trot as her homely friend Thelma. 1982 Computerworld 27 Dec. 49/4 They're hot to trot the first few days, but then they feel they can't do it and just sit back and depend on agencies. 2001 B. Broady In this Block there lives Slag 44 Whatever happened to the student nurses of my youth—vivid, tender, blithe as spring throstles and self-parodically hot to trot..though seldom with me? b. Very keen on, enthusiastic about. Cf. sense A. 8a. ΚΠ 1982 D. Dickenson Fighting Upstream in Canad. Fiction Mag. 30–31 98 I applied for compassionate leave, which I got, because I was..a member in good standing of the library club. The warden was hot to trot on reading. 1990 Chron. Higher Educ. 19 Dec. a22/5 He's ‘not hot to trot’ on a proposal for a prepaid-tuition plan approved by voters in November. 1995 Canad. Business May 34/2 Right now, everybody is hot to trot on small-capitalization stocks. c. Desirable, in demand; erotic, sexy. ΚΠ 1989 Car & Driver Sept. 111/1 These hot-to-trot chariots include a shiny red Corvette..and an ultrafast twin-turbo Ruf Porsche. 1992 More 28 Oct. 51/1 He'd actually buy her hot-to-trot underwear and little red Lycra numbers with plunging necklines. 2002 B Jan. 38/1 Kylie scores a double whammy in this year's awards. Not only is she hot to trot on a night out, she's spot on when it comes to the ‘less is more’ rule. < as lemmas |
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