| 单词 | to let have it hot |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto let (a person) have it hot 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.’ < as lemmas |
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