hot as hell's hinges

adjective

Hot as hell, extremely hot.

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Meanings

adjectivehot as hell's hinges (not comparable)
  1. colloquialmildlynot comparablevulgarsimileHot as hell, extremely hot.

    […] a herb mixture that […] is remembered as being "hot as hell's hinges" and "mighty powerful."

    1977, Robert R. Madden, T. Russell Jones, Mountain Home: The Walker Family Farmstead, Great Smoky Mountains National Park, page 31
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    "The Spider tried to pass her off as a virgin, and Vivian's hot as hell's hinges about that. She's-" "Is she pretty?" "There's some who'd say so," Bertha said grudgingly.

    1997 December 1, Lois Battle, Storyville, Penguin, →ISBN, page 107

    It was as hot as hell's hinges and the work was hard and long. Stacking green lumber right off the saw gives one a lot of time to dwell on what he really wants to do with his life.

    1998, Buck Rish, Sandbridge: Saga of an American Doctor, Buck Rish, →ISBN, page 27

    It's hot as hell's hinges most of the year and boring all the time. Dead flat and covered with knee-high greasewood as far as the eye can see. I've crossed it a couple of times by rail, but it must have been a pisser to cross[…]

    2012 November 14, Lou Cameron, Stringer and the Deadly Flood, Blackstone Publishing, →ISBN

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