Idiom
fire hose
Meaning
Any fast, heavy stream (e.g. of information).
Meaning adapted from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Examples
“The course was a fire hose of new vocabulary.”
“Starting the new job felt like a fire hose of information hitting me every day.”
“She opened her inbox to find a fire hose of urgent requests, each demanding attention before noon.”
Examples
simple
“The course was a fire hose of new vocabulary.”
contextual
“Starting the new job felt like a fire hose of information hitting me every day.”
complex
“She opened her inbox to find a fire hose of urgent requests, each demanding attention before noon.”
Origin
From fire + hose.
Key words
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