Idiom
boiling hot
Meaning
Extremely hot (having a high temperature: of an object, the weather, a living creature).
Meaning adapted from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Examples
“The coffee is boiling hot, so be careful.”
“We stayed inside all afternoon because the weather was boiling hot.”
“After trekking across the desert under the boiling hot sun, the travelers finally reached the cool shade of the oasis.”
Examples
simple
“The coffee is boiling hot, so be careful.”
contextual
“We stayed inside all afternoon because the weather was boiling hot.”
complex
“After trekking across the desert under the boiling hot sun, the travelers finally reached the cool shade of the oasis.”
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