Idiom
hissing hot
Meaning
Very hot.
Meaning adapted from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Examples
“Be careful, the soup is hissing hot.”
“The blacksmith pulled the metal from the fire while it was still hissing hot.”
“She reached for the handle of the skillet, forgetting that it had been sitting on the hissing hot burner for several minutes.”
Examples
simple
“Be careful, the soup is hissing hot.”
contextual
“The blacksmith pulled the metal from the fire while it was still hissing hot.”
complex
“She reached for the handle of the skillet, forgetting that it had been sitting on the hissing hot burner for several minutes.”
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