hotter than a two-dollar pistol

A form of hotter than a two dollar pistol — Synonym of hotter than a pistol.

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adjectivehotter than a two-dollar pistol (comparative form only)
  1. alternativecomparative onlyAlternative form of hotter than a two dollar pistol.

    THE RESULT? Your cash register will be hotter than a two-dollar pistol! You’ll have toy sales profits in addition to profits on vacation items!

    1949, Chas. Wm. Doepke Mfg. Co., Inc., “Model Toys”, in Life, New York, N.Y.: Time Inc., →ISSN, →OCLC
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    Five games remain for each team, including two more with each other over the week-end. But time is running short and the Fenway Millionaires are hotter than a two-dollar pistol. The breaks are now beginning to fall in the direction of the better club.

    1949 September 27, Arthur Daley, “Sports of the Times”, in The New York Times, volume XCIX, number 33,484, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 37, column 3

    Once before I had started after him with no girl involved and had quit the trail cold at the first cross-track. Now I was hotter than a two-dollar pistol. Star was the answer.

    1950, Will Henry [pseudonym; Henry Wilson Allen], chapter 13, in No Survivors: A Novel, New York, N.Y.: Random House, →OCLC, part 1, page 120
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