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Idiom idiom

hot shit

Vulgar

An exceptionally impressive person or thing

Meaning adapted from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.


SIMPLE

“He thinks he is hot shit because he got a new car.”

CONTEXTUAL

“She acts like she is hot shit just because she won the local tennis tournament.”

COMPLEX

“Despite his reputation for being hot shit in the industry, his latest project failed to impress the board of directors.”


Related idioms8entries
  1. 01

    and shit

    Used after one or more listed objects, attributes or processes to indicate additional others.

  2. 02

    baking hot

    Very hot.

  3. 03

    beat the shit out of

    To beat (someone) severely.

  4. 04

    blow hot air

    To engage in empty or exaggerated talk that lacks substance, credibility, or truth; to bluster.

  5. 05

    blow hot and cold

    To behave inconsistently; to vacillate or to waver, as between extremes of opinion or emotion.

  6. 06

    boiling hot

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

  7. 07

    come in hot

    To enter the scene of conflict quickly and aggressively.

  8. 08

    does the Pope shit in the woods

    Obviously! Rhetorical question in response to a question where the answer is an emphatic yes.

Last updated August 10, 2026