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boiling frog

idiom

A person who, or thing which, is in a gradually worsening situation without any realization of the peril until it is too late.


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  1. 01

    boiling hot

    Extremely hot (having a high temperature: of an object, the weather, a living creature).

  2. 02

    boiling mad

    extremely angry; furious.

  3. 03

    boiling point

    The state of being heated, with high aggression.

  4. 04

    frog in one's throat

    Hoarseness or the need to cough.

  5. 05

    keep the pot boiling

    To maintain one's livelihood; to continue to procure the necessities of living.

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